Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
- Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW
In her new Quarterly Essay, anti-violence campaigner Jess Hill asks whether the government’s response to gender-based violence is fit for purpose.
With the re-election of Donald Trump, the sex-trafficking allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and the Gisele Pelicot case, #MeToo is in the news. Three new books reflect its key themes.
This is not the first time domestic violence has been declared a national crisis. Australian governments first got seriously involved in 1985. What can the past 40 years teach us?
Zora Simic has never been married, nor wanted to. She assesses two new books about feminism and marriage – Clementine Ford’s polemic against it and Rachael Lennon’s history of its reformation.
Que faire des œuvres que nous aimons quand le comportement de leurs auteurs est moralement répréhensible ?
So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?
Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of a second-wave feminist, ranges across the contemporary sexual landscape – and looks back at the history of feminism – in a ‘zig zag pursuit of sexual liberation’.
Laurie Penny’s new book Sexual Revolution offers a muddled perspective on this moment of profound cultural change, in contrast to Australian journalist Amy Remeikis’ powerful new work.
As First Lady during the Depression and second world war, Roosevelt was instrumental in how the US was run - and did much to advance women in that role.
Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013) is a career-defining work of scholarship and storytelling. The significance of her historical intervention and the power and flair of Wright’s narrative…
When US Republican Todd Akin declared earlier this week that it is impossible or “really rare” for a woman to become pregnant as a result of a “legitimate rape” because “the female body has ways to try…
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