A social chronicler and prolific journalist as well as a fiction writer, Colette provided a highly original woman’s perspective on life in stultifying patriarchal times.
Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household.
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A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
A service in the village church of St. Paul de Leon in Devon, England.
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With the Church of England considering gender-neutral language to refer to God, a feminist theologian explains how Christianity has historically recognized many pronouns to refer to the divine.
Diana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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A scholar of Greek mythology explains the naming of NASA’s missions after mythological figures and why the name Artemis is indicative of a more diverse era of space exploration.
Activists in Uruguay took part in global marches against gender-based violence.
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Latin American activists have made important contributions to the movement against gender-based violence. Their impact has been significant within global feminist movements.
Public commitments to feminism translated into private benefits for heterosexual men.
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Men who identify as feminists self-report more frequent sex and higher levels of sexual satisfaction. The other 60 per cent aren’t having as much fun, according to the findings of a new study.
Anti-#MeToo sentiments were so common in this author’s story she decided to write about it.
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Academic Stella Nyanzi has been daring in her critique of Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni. She now faces jail for her outspokenness.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledges her supporters following the defeat of her party in the provincial election on June 7.
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How has sexuality, gender and race played a role in the career of Kathleen Wynne, who stepped down as Ontario Liberal leader after her party’s disastrous showing in the provincial election?