With the abortion debate many of us take for granted raging on Prince Edward Island, I decided to go back in time a bit, when reproductive rights were a newly won battle and the female sexual experience was a subject not everyone spoke about. The stream of consciousness narrative in Andrea Dworkin’s Ice and Fire ...
The working world can be especially difficult for a woman — we are paid less, progress slower and have more domestic responsibilitie to juggle — but can you image what it must have been like to walk into an office in the 1970s? A Paycheck Of Your Own was written to help women make ...
When I explained to a friend of mine that this website is a feminist site he was shocked. He just didn’t believe me. What was he expecting? Anti-man diatribes? Militant lesbians? Kill the patriarchy messages? Feminism has changed and evolved over the years and it’s not what a lot of people expect it to be. ...
What does it mean to be a feminist? Does she have to be a woman? Does she have to have hairy legs? Does she have to be pro choice? Conservative women are finally embracing the f-word but their pro life stance leads many to believe their are more faux than feminist.
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...
