On Sontag
A new collection of essays from the mid-70s offers a frustrating glimpse of the author’s strengths and weaknesses.
Riley Moore
· 11 min read
Feminism
A collection of 171 posts
The Deadly Consequences of Cancel Culture: Quillette Cetera Episode 11
And how mainstream feminism devalues motherhood.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere
Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.
Arturo Desimone
· 7 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’?
A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad
More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism
Charlotte Allen
· 24 min read
Little Liliths
Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation
The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.
Peggy Sastre
· 29 min read
The Sanctification of the Self
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Megan Wildhood
· 8 min read
Mobbed but Unbowed: An Interview with Kellie-Jay Keen
Holly Lawford-Smith sits down with the women’s rights activist now leading the charge against gender ideologues.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
The Stanford Rape Hoax
Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.
Lona Manning
· 21 min read
Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction?
It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author.
Josh Allan
· 7 min read
Marching Backwards
Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.
Marilyn Simon
· 14 min read
Vices of Mainstream Feminism
The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
Podcast # 195: Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women’s Locker Room
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called
Quillette
· 1 min read
Children of the Counter-Revolution
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read