videoAnthropology
Margaret Mead explains why the family was entering a brave new world in this 1959 film
29 minutes
essayHistory of ideas
From scattered traces
How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought
Luka Boršić
essayGender
Taliban bride
Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter
Zala & Asad Nariman
videoSports and games
Young Palestinians find fleeting moments of freedom at a West Bank skate park
13 minutes
videoHistory of science
Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highest glass ceilings
14 minutes
videoGender
A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry
5 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
10 minutes
videoHistory
Hags, seductresses, feminist icons – how gender dynamics manifest in witches
13 minutes
essayGender
Does testosterone make men?
In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree
Cordelia Fine & Carole Hooven
essayNeurodiversity
Autism’s missing women
Long believed to be particularly associated with males, new research is revolutionising our understanding of autism
Gina Rippon
videoLove and friendship
Never marry a man you love too much, and other views on romance in Sierra Leone
5 minutes
essayGender and identity
Requeering Wilde
Oscar Wilde is an icon of gay liberation from secrecy. But his life and his sexuality were not so simple – nor so binary
Sam Mills
essayThinkers and theories
The necessity of Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum’s philosophy is dynamic and challenging, but also elegant and lucidly written: she is the thinker of our time
Brandon Robshaw
videoGender
A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application
16 minutes
essayHuman rights and justice
Did you think you were safe?
When I moved to India for work, I found that rape was a feature of the country, as deeply embedded as caste
Evelyn Fok
essayArt
Threads of resistance
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest
Gemma McKenzie
videoTechnology and the self
Why single Chinese women are freezing their eggs in California
24 minutes
essayHistory of ideas
Settling accounts
Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings
Rebecca Wilkin
videoArt
Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist
15 minutes
essayStories and literature
Her blazing world
Margaret Cavendish’s boldness and bravery set 17th-century society alight, but is she a feminist poster-girl for our times?
Francesca Peacock
videoFilm and visual culture
‘Bags here are rarely innocent’ – how filmmakers work around censorship in Iran
8 minutes
videoWellbeing
Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest
11 minutes
videoPolitics and government
How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power
33 minutes
videoThe ancient world
The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at risk of death
5 minutes