How many female artists can you name? I’m not talking about pop stars, musicians or novelists, I’m thinking of women in fine arts whose work gets exposed in museums. If you can’t name very many beyond Georgia O’Keefe and Yoko Ono, it might be because women only really started getting exposure in the art world ...
Feminism has grown from a fringe movement to a way of life. While most people understand the ideals and support them, whether or not they use the F-word, there are the people who are convinced that Feminists want to take over the world — rather like an alien invasion. The iconic image of Feminists are ...
I was born in 1981, so by the time I realized I was a feminist a lot of the hardest battles had already been won. Women could vote, rape in marriage was illegal, birth control was freely available, abortion was legal, and women were smashing through that glass ceiling. What this means is that I ...
You would think today’s moms, who have grown up with the feminist rights movement, would try to treat their daughters and sons equally. But sadly, a survey found that moms are still giving sons special privileges while being harder on their daughters, and a shocking 49% think it’s okay to treat boys and girls differently. A survey ...
Feminism has a bad reputation. We are seen as man-haters who want to take over the world. As any good feminist knows, that is only a small subset of the population and it is a false feminism. Feminism is about equality, not superiority, and any woman who hates men is not a feminist. Maybe this ...
The feminist movement has allowed women to achieve any and all of their dreams, including being both a soldier and a beauty queen. Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge has become Miss England and after the Miss World 2009 Festival L/Cl Hodge will go on to serve in Afghanistan next year.
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
