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The gathering of almost 500 female religious scholars in Indonesia in the world’s first Female Clerics Congress shows Muslim women’s fight for equality.
As a comic hero, Wonder Woman’s antecedents reach back to the suffragettes. And a long awaited feature film offers us a fittingly feminist story.
Unlike earlier lesbian and gay movements whose politics depended on visible identities, queer theory grew out of a critique of this – and perhaps that’s where Djuna Barnes sits.
BBC sitcom Fleabag rewrites the rules on depicting women in drama, freeing the female character from the mindless stereotyping that has straitjacketed women for so long.
Ripley beat the patriarchy and a rampaging xenomorph - but Daniels isn’t even given the chance.
Independent, powerful feminist role models or a warning to women not to overstep the mark? Witches have been many things over the years.
The lack of strong female characters in children’s picture books is oft-lamented. But a new crop of books invites girls to write themselves into history.
Few would argue that exchanging cultural ideas could be construed negatively. But what happens when the influence and origins of that culture go unacknowledged and ignored?
By singing frankly about sex and life on the streets, the pioneering women of Rio de Janeiro’s funk scene are redefining what feminism sounds like.
Much of the non-Muslim world appears dismissive of the value Islam can have in Muslim women’s lives, but Islam is a crucial tool in the work of gender justice.
The suffragists who gained women the right to vote offer a model of Australia’s role in the world that remains as important as ever.
With a new TV series based on the novel - and its bleak vision of women’s rights - The Handmaid’s Tale is riding a new wave of popularity.
Stars of one of sport’s biggest success stories are slowly revealing the dangerous influence of Spice Girls-style postfeminism.
The famous slogan of the 1970s that ‘women who want equality with men lack ambition’ still rings true today.
There was more than meets the eye to one of the most famous versions of Beauty and the Beast.
Some deride a Carnival trend in which women revel in the streets wearing swimsuits and feather boas. But to feminists, ‘bikini mas’ is a highly political act.
What do you do if you marry a beast?
This is a thought-provoking, odd, shocking and beautiful movie about feminism, fantasy and film history.
From witch-hunts to the suffragettes, belief in womanly werewolfs has flourished at times when the female gender was under threat. But in contemporary fiction, film and art, werewolf lore is evolving in surprising ways.
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