Ford exposes a sexist society, but how do we fight it?
Feminist and media personality Clementine Ford’s first book Fight Like a Girl has gained enormous attention since its publication in October.
Feminist and media personality Clementine Ford’s first book Fight Like a Girl has gained enormous attention since its publication in October.
The outrage against Donald Trump’s revolting sexism has dealt a possibly fatal blow to his presidential campaign.
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, originally released in 2014, has played to dozens of sold out screenings in Australia, and is now streaming on Netflix.
Geraldine Fela discusses the new film Suffragette, and how the fight for the vote polarised between wealthy and working class women
Malcolm Turnbull and new Minister for Women Michaelia Cash have made a great show of confronting domestic violence. But politicians, celebrities, media outlets and sporting codes have already
Lucy Honan reviews two new works on the lesser known Marx and her important contributions to Marxist ideas about women’s liberation and class struggle
Preamble Sexism is as alive as ever. The movements in the 1960s and 70s won gains and transformed women’s lives, but women continue to suffer from unequal pay, gendered and fewer job
The NSW government is facing a community backlash over new reforms that are forcing women-only shelters and refuges to close or be taken over.
Jasmine Ali examines the renewed interest in the idea of intersectionality associated with the revival of feminism
The resurgence of feminist organising has led to renewed debate about who benefits from sexism, and who has an interest in fighting it, writes Amy Thomas
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers, New South Publishing, $19.99
The horrific gang rape of a woman by six men on a public bus in Delhi, India, sparked angry protests across the country in December.
It was a speech that stunned the nation and went viral on social media. But what does Gillard’s anti-sexism represent, asks Judy McVey
Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship By Jeff Sparrow $29.95, Scribe The left is tangled up in knots over the politics of pornography. Left-wing academics like Clive Hamilton are trying
Was it the “real Julia� on display or was it a politician desperately trying to cover up an inglorious political history and her own hypocrisy? But, then, that is the real Julia.
There was an outpouring of community concern at the rape and murder of ABC journalist, Jill Meagher. The circumstances of her death—while walking home after a night out—were shocking. Much of the
Review: Delusions of Gender By Cordelia Fine, Allen and Unwin, $29.99
The thousands taking to the streets for “slutwalk� rallies show the anger at the widespread and growing sexism in society—exemplified in the efforts to blame women for rape. Solidarity produced
Protests, billed as “SlutWalks�, are spreading after a cop’s sexist comment to Toronto students. Our society promotes and constantly reinforces the idea that women are to blame if they are raped.
New scandals have again exposed the extreme sexism in the Australian military. Jasmine Ali looks at whether promoting more women into combat roles will make any difference
In early February, over one million people rallied across Italy asking “se non ora quando?� (if not now, when?), demanding an end to the rampant sexism characterising Italian politics and media
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism By Natasha Walter Virago, $35
Amy Thomas reviews Hannah Dee’s The Red in the Rainbow, an essential look at why fighting homophobia means fighting the system
Touted as the first feminist conference in Sydney in 15 years, “F: the conference� was a reminder of how far governments have wound back women’s rights over the same period.
The horrible ordeal faced by the Cairns couple, Tegan Leach and her partner Sergie Brennan, charged “for procuring an abortion� is set to continue after they were committed to trial on a date yet
Caster Semenya, world champion South African runner, is both “a woman… and a man!� So said the New York Daily News, days after the results of “gender tests� had been leaked to the Australian
Pro-abortion activists are rallying in Queensland to defend a Cairns couple, Tegan Leach and Sergie Brennan, who have been charged under Queensland’s Criminal Code with attempting to procure an
On May 11, the ABC’s Four Corners ran a program exposing numerous cases of sexual abuse by National Rugby League (NRL) football players. The ensuing media frenzy unleashed a barrage of sexism,
Review of Sex and the City, directed by Michael Patrick King Coming to DVD