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A Feminist Against Modernity

Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Forum, 2023). A review. “Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be…

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Beautiful young sensual fashionable woman holding cute pink small pig pet in cloth and lipstick in hands on wooden background, horizontal picture

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Queer Majority

Feminist in the Streets, Chauvinist in the Sheets: Politics and the Bedroom

When my wife was in graduate school, it gave her enormous pleasure to go to class with her arse so sore from my spankings that I stayed on her mind…

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Close-up on a pair of male lions basking in the sun on a rocky outcrop in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

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7 min

Defining Masculinity

If it is sometimes hard to be a woman, being a man is hardly a walk in the park either. Men die earlier than women, are more likely to be…

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Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry

17/11/2022
Louise Perry and Iona Italia

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to writer Louise Perry about her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex…

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9 min

The Bedevilments of Sex: Louise Perry’s “The Case against the Sexual Revolution”

The legacy of the sexual revolution has been scrutinised, even called into question altogether recently. What was traditionally hailed as a liberation, in particular for women and sexual minorities, that…

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10 min

Culture & Media

A Series of Unfortunate Misunderstandings: Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism.”

Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism begins with a story. She has been invited to a “warm and cheerful” Manhattan wine bar, but worries that the women she is with will…

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19 min

The Ambivalent Place: Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex

A summa cum laude graduate of Yale, where she won prizes in English and creative writing despite majoring in philosophy; a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where she won an All…

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6 min

Politics

Men Are Not Sharks

Announcing on Twitter that all women are bad drivers or that all Muslims are bombers in waiting is likely to lead to a suspension. Moreover, it could have serious ramifications for…

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5 min

Politics

Not All Men

For Vijit and Gita Imagine if we lived in a world populated by two races of beings: one of them not only markedly physically stronger than the other but more…

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10 min

A Feminist Hero: “Prey” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali probably has the strongest current claim to the title of most unfairly maligned person. Ever since she started speaking out against the dangers posed by Islamism and…

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9 min

Politics

The Digital Deplatforming of a Gender-Critical Feminist

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Medium, saying that my account had been suspended because it was in violation of their rules on hate speech. I’m…

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6 min

Culture & Media

Lesbians, Witches and Nukes: “Other Girls Like Me” by Stephanie Davies

Stephanie Davies’ recent memoir Other Girls Like Me is a moving, deeply personal account of one of the great protest movements against nuclear weapons. Davies was a warrior in her…

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9 min

An Apology to JK Rowling

JK Rowling recently published an eminently reasonable, heartfelt treatise, outlining why it is important to preserve the category of woman. There’s only one thing wrong with it: it assumes a…

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4 min

Politics

I’m a Non-White White Feminist

I’m not white. Applied to me, non-white is a meaningless descriptor, but it’s also a very obvious one. My complexion makes it difficult for this fact to go unnoticed, especially…

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5 min

How Polarized Western Politics Affect Arab Women’s Rights

Sitting in my house in Jordan, under a total lockdown that started more than a month ago, I spend a lot of my free time reading about the different forms…

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8 min

Culture & Media

Scheherazade’s Heirs: “Sex and Lies” by Leïla Slimani

Most countries contain contradictions. Scotland, for example, was central to the Enlightenment, but it also has plenty of gangs and high rates of drug use and obesity (facts well known…

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5 min

Politics

A Troubling Triplet: Consent, MeToo and Carceral Feminism

Sexual consent, #MeToo and carceral feminism (see below) are often linked in discussions of gender relations, sex and justice. Consent is understood as something that can be easily and fully given…

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Feminism

A Feminist Against Modernity

Feminist in the Streets, Chauvinist in the Sheets: Politics and the Bedroom

Defining Masculinity

Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry

The Bedevilments of Sex: Louise Perry’s “The Case against the Sexual Revolution”

A Series of Unfortunate Misunderstandings: Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism.”

The Ambivalent Place: Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex

Men Are Not Sharks

Not All Men

A Feminist Hero: “Prey” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Digital Deplatforming of a Gender-Critical Feminist

Lesbians, Witches and Nukes: “Other Girls Like Me” by Stephanie Davies

An Apology to JK Rowling

I’m a Non-White White Feminist

How Polarized Western Politics Affect Arab Women’s Rights

Scheherazade’s Heirs: “Sex and Lies” by Leïla Slimani

A Troubling Triplet: Consent, MeToo and Carceral Feminism

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