Feminism
I am baffled by Nikki Gemmell’s new ‘feminist’ novel
Wing features a cast of truly awful, nasty people. What is Gemmell trying to achieve here?
- by Helen Elliott
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Wicked unveils the tyranny of feminine niceness – and that’s why your daughters must see it
The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.
- by Jacqueline Maley
‘I make the movie I want to see’: The unusual side of Viggo Mortensen’s new western
The Dead Don’t Hurt is both a traditional western and a reinvention – one that puts the story of an ordinary woman front-and-centre.
- by Karl Quinn
From Bridgerton to Moana: The TikTok stars making history at Disney
Songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are the first of their kind to create a Disney soundtrack.
- by Louise Rugendyke
In Trump’s America, women don’t feel safe to date. Neither do these Aussies
The 4B movement, a radical feminist movement originating in South Korea, has seen a surge in interest from women in the West.
- by Lauren Ironmonger
These women were extraordinary. So how did we forget about them?
They were saints and scholars, radicals and trailblazers. Finally, their stories are being told.
- by Emily Maguire
France’s horrifying rape trial has a feminist hero
Many call her “Gisele” as if they know her personally. In her chic image, they see themselves, their mothers, their grandmothers.
- by Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic
Demi Moore on the male gaze, the beauty myth, and the horrors of latex
The Substance stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley share their thoughts on the body horror film, and why they don’t necessarily agree with its director.
- by Karl Quinn
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I’ve never sent a naked selfie. There’s no shame in a little shame
That we use “prude” as a derogatory term should show us the implicit pressure we put on others to embrace nudity and sexuality.
- by Cherie Gilmour
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Chained to a Brisbane bar, Merle made her mark. Now a statue is promised
Thornton and friend Rosalie Bogner famously chained themselves to the Regatta Hotel bar in a 1965 protest. The state has vowed to memorialise her with a statue.
- by William Davis and Matt Dennien
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They called him ‘Tampon Tim’ as an insult. It backfired
Positive political role models like Tim Walz are important. He shows young men that they have nothing to fear by giving things to women – be they tampons or just some basic respect.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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