Most divorces are tedious processes. Is there a pre-nup? Where do the kids go? Who gets the house, the Michael Jackson CD collection? But when the marriage is based on religious principles that include some financial compensations that law doesn’t account for, things can be even trickier. In Islamic tradition, an written arrangement called a ...
Every year in Indore, hundreds of baby girls are being ‘converted’ into boys. Not because they are ill or because their insides don’t match their outsides, not because they’re convinced they’ve been born in the wrong body, but because their parents would prefer a boy. Genitoplasty is usually carried out to correct genital abnormalities in consenting ...
Divorce is usually a mutual decision by two people. It’s not always amicable, but the blame for the dissolution of marriage can rarely be placed on one spouse. But women alone are being blamed for the high divorce rate in the UAE by judicial officials. The tradition was that men had to make three statements ...
Indian brides are being abandoned by their British husbands on a regular basis. These men get thousands of pounds for dowry and never see their wives again despite promising to get them a visa for the UK. Yet this is perpetuated by Indian women desperate for British citizenship and flocking to British Indian tourists in the hopes ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
