Feminism

Next Time You Use The Word ‘Gender Inequality,’ Keep These Things In Mind

By Anjana Radhakrishnan:

How This Feminist Went Beyond Male and Female And Started A Revolution In Gender Studies

What ‘White Feminism’ Is And 3 Things That It Gets Completely Wrong

Not Just a ‘Kink’, Here’s The Feminist Side of BDSM!

Pop culture can be both a positive and negative influence on public perception — and in the case of BDSM, it has been the latter. In the wake of (the baffling) success of the 50 Shades of Grey series, the act of BDSM, of sexual kinks, has…

‘Girls To The Front’: The ’90s Music Movement That Made Feminism Punk Rock

When members of Russian band Pussy Riot protested against President Vladimir Putin government at a Moscow church in 2012, it was as if time had folded back on itself, to the Riot Grrrl movement of the…

How This Feminist Author Broke The Silence On Women’s Mental Health In The ‘60s

Whether it’s ‘Mad Men’ or ‘Desperate Housewives’, you’d have noticed a recurring pattern in television and film — unhappy suburban housewives. And there’s a history to it, too. The 1950s and…

‘Earn 500 Pounds A Year’: What Virginia Woolf Had To Say About Women Making Money

“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself,” said Virginia Woolf, the observant English novelist who was…