Society
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Human rights and justice
Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist
Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today
Lydia Moland
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Art
Milk, pity and power
Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?
Margie Orford
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Gender and identity
A manly divorce
Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence
Joshua Coleman
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Thinkers and theories
Masham and me
Were it not for her friendship with John Locke, the radical feminist gems of philosopher Damaris Masham might be unknown
Regan Penaluna
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Art
The female Abstract Expressionists of New York shook the world of art
15 minutes
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Music
Enter the conductrice
Will a new generation of women on the podium perpetuate the tyrannical charisma of their male predecessors or overturn it?
Xenia Hanusiak
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History
Women at the barricades
The transgressions of working-class women formed the revolutionary heart of the 1871 Paris Commune
Carolyn Eichner
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History
The doxxing of Rose Mainville
When a young street vendor found her name in a guidebook to the sex workers of Paris, she couldn’t live with the shame
Amanda E Herbert & David N Woodworth
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Work
Living out of a truck, Maikhuu finds promise and peril on Mongolia’s ‘coal highway’
25 minutes
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History
From manners to mud – two women recall coming of age in Victorian London
10 minutes
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Religion
Sisters in dharma
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, Parwati Soepangat pioneered a Buddhist feminist theology with deep roots
Jack Meng-Tat Chia
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Fairness and equality
How the first woman of colour to be elected to the US Congress remade education
21 minutes
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History of ideas
Tantra is, and was, a subversive philosophy of feminine power
19 minutes
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Economics
We all play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?
30 minutes
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Art
Her body is a problem
When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters?
Lauren Elkin
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Biology
In the jungle of Suriname, Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis
4 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
More than muses and martyrs
In the long 19th century, many women philosophers were marginalised or ignored. We need to rediscover them
Kristin Gjesdal & Dalia Nassar
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Thinkers and theories
The lady vanishes
The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example
Ann-Sophie Barwich
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Gender and identity
How the spy-cam epidemic in South Korea affects the women who are its victims
35 minutes
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History
Tattoos and trousers
Let your imagination take flight to the hunting, riding, adventurous lives of Scythia’s warrior women, the real Amazons
Christine Lehnen
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Gender
Are men animals?
Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies
Matthew Gutmann
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Gender and identity
LGBTQ+ retirees celebrate their hard-earned self-acceptance at a belated prom night
14 minutes
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Biography and memoir
Meet the Liverbirds! The bittersweet tale of Liverpool’s all-female answer to the Beatles
16 minutes
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History of science
Healthcare workers of yore
Looking past conventional histories of medicine we see that women delivered much of medieval healthcare. Just as today
Sara Ritchey