The authors argue South Asian immigrants to Canada have become complicit in the state’s racial and capitalist agendas.
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There are reasons many female writers chose to publish under male pseudonyms. Republishing their books under their female names denies them agency.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has just published 25 literary works by female authors with their real names for the first time. Could we do the same for Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson here?
When female public figures are sexualised it takes away from their perceived competence. For Brett Sutton, it seems to be a bonus. But that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
From having small brains to being better at reading, it is often argued that women aren’t well suited to do science.
Before vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.
The emergence of female-oriented erotica has been portrayed as a sign of women’s liberation, but research indicates that it reinforces cultural scripts of pornography targeting men.
Eco-fiction to help you rethink your role in the climate crisis.
Christine de Pizan’s 15th-century feminist narrative has particular resonance today.
A scholar explains why the players are having so much trouble with their equal pay claim.
Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.
Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
Female leaders have shone in the response to the coronavirus pandemic but is there more to it than simply having women in charge?
From Madonna and child to fierce matriarch, mothers have appeared in frame since photography began – even it sometimes they are just part of the furniture.
Even in a world where 99% of the male population is dead, patriarchy is still a very comfortable pair of shoes and very easy to slip into.
Breaking through the world of male Irish poetics, Boland was a fierce, feminist voice that was decidedly Irish.
How did a punchline about bad middle-aged fashion become a trendy must-have for women of all ages?
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
There are many gems of female filmmaking in the archives that have been overlooked and should be made accessible to contemporary audiences
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