Global hijabista style, from the Afghan burqa to the cover of a fashion magazine
The versatile, controversial piece of clothing has come to symbolise both the oppression of women and their empowerment.
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How Australia’s discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
Evidence shows fat-shaming health campaigns have little effect on promoting healthy lifestyles and weight loss among fat people.
Global Series: Talking sex, changing cultures
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
Friday essay: double standards and derision – tracing our attitudes to older women and beauty
Why is Cher, 71, celebrated when she wears a near-nude costume while Madonna, 58, receives revulsion? 19th century women's magazines reveal how the double standards of beauty for older women came about.
Vivacious and unapologetic, The Rover’s 17th-century feminism is painfully pertinent
The Rover begins with 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn inviting those who don't like the idea of a female writer to fuck off, setting the tone for a hilarious and utterly relevant romp through Naples.
From witches to Victorian mediums: the abuse of levitating women
Tales of levitation tend to belie stark inequalities and various forms of violence (often upon women).
How to spend foreign aid like a feminist
Canada is making a major commitment to foreign aid that will help girls and women. But will its new aid policy have the unintended consequence of shutting doors to other much-needed aid?
How to reduce sexism in screenplays
Only 10% of films have a gender-balanced cast, and getting more women on screens starts with the screenwriters. The solution can be as simple as giving minor characters female names.
Colombian militants have a new plan for the country, and it’s called ‘insurgent feminism’
Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women's movement based in the FARC's revolutionary ideals.
Will women vote for women in 2018? It depends on if they’re married
Research shows that married women tend not to relate as much to other women. This makes a big difference when a woman is on the ballot.
Why is there so little space for women in jazz music?
Women are disturbingly under-represented in Australian jazz, with relatively few female composers and instrumentalists. What's holding them back? And what can be done about it?
Wonder Woman: feminist icon or symbol of oppression?
Why haven't feminists noted that the film is too Western and too white?
‘Who knew the world could be so awful’: Alice Birch’s apocalyptic feminist theatre
'Well behaved women seldom make history,' wrote historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Revolt. She said. Revolt again. at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre takes the idea to its apocalyptic extremes.
‘I’m so sorry’: when Indian advertisements turn around sexism
India's advertisements not only challenge but also reverse the dominant roles that Indian men assume with the women in their lives.
As a peace loving warrior, might Wonder Woman unite feminists?
In a world where public avenues for violence are increasingly open to women, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman presents us with an ethical and feminist model of fighting femininity.
Friday essay: power, perils and rites of passage – the history of the female tattoo
For thousands of years, tattoos have been indicative of the passage from girlhood to womanhood, of female power and female beauty.
Lipstick Under My Burkha: when real women take over Indian screens
Alankrita Srivastava's feminist film has Indian censors in a tizzy.
Indonesian Muslim women engage with feminism
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.
Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions
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.
Djuna Barnes: the ‘lesbian’ writer who rejected lesbianism
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.
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