A collection of 167 posts
More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism
Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.
The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Holly Lawford-Smith sits down with the women’s rights activist now leading the charge against gender ideologues.
Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.
It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author.
Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.
The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
I recently started work in a male-dominated field, and I’ve been getting a lot of sympathetic remarks about my being “a woman in X.” But something has started to feel a bit off about this line. I’ve realized that being a woman in my field doesn’t actually
In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) informed me that I was under investigation for my “off-duty conduct.” My disciplinary hearing is scheduled to take place from May 30th through June 3rd, and my career as a nurse hangs in the balance. I have been
Young people are still discovering their sexual selves and are often lost when exploring the sexual terrain of someone else’s body and mind.
Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way.