Society
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Stories and literature
Her blazing world
Margaret Cavendish’s boldness and bravery set 17th-century society alight, but is she a feminist poster-girl for our times?
Francesca Peacock
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Film and visual culture
‘Bags here are rarely innocent’ – how filmmakers work around censorship in Iran
8 minutes
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Wellbeing
Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest
11 minutes
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Politics and government
How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power
33 minutes
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The ancient world
The six priestesses who kept the flame of ancient Rome alight at risk of death
5 minutes
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Family life
A patchwork family
After my marriage failed, I strove to create a new family – one made beautiful by the loving way it’s stitched together
Lily Dunn
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Gender and identity
Silencing of the girls
Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their true thoughts to themselves
Carol Gilligan
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Human rights and justice
Witch hunts persist as a horrifying, deadly reality in pockets of rural India
24 minutes
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Gender
When aggression is viewed as brilliance, it hurts women in science, and science itself
5 minutes
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The ancient world
The horrors of Pompeii
The name ‘Eutychis’ was etched into a wall 2,000 years ago. Finding out who she was illuminates the dark side of Rome
Guy D Middleton
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Gender
The ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania who trade femininity for freedom
10 minutes
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History
The life of Wanda Półtawska
Her closeness to Pope John Paul furnished him with anti-abortion ideals, fuelled by her survival of the Ravensbrück camp
Joy Neumeyer
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Politics and government
Join the spirited debate at a women’s hair salon before a pivotal election in Tunisia
19 minutes
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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