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The judgment document in the Toronto van attack case pointed out that the attacker’s motivations were unclear but related to other ideologically informed violent acts.
All-boys’ schools often choose texts for English study written by men. But the sexism goes beyond that. They are more likely to shy away from any exploration of gender in literature.
It’s clear that when girls and young women are at the forefront of major social justice movements, the old structures of patriarchy and misogyny can be challenged and hopefully dismantled.
Student protesters in Turkey recently used this mythical figure to express their queer identity. An art historian explains the significance.
Most of those incarcerated in mid-20th century Ireland were held in psychiatric hospitals, which have kept their secrets until today. This must change.
With obscenities and violence, rioters at the Capitol left an obvious message: angry contempt for women.
An international survey of women media workers has found that in many cases, physical attacks appear to have followed online threats.
Nigerian music is gaining momentum across the world, but a study of hip hop lyrics and videos shows how the music also negatively affects women.
You might think he’s the hero of his own story but the murder happy Hamlet is really an unconscionable brute.
What is it about breast cancer that has made mastectomy and its effects so hard to discuss for over 400 years?
Research shows one in five Australian women experience degrading content online. This is not ‘harmless’ or ‘normal’.
In a new book, Julia Gillard, Hillary Clinton and other high-profile female leaders speak plainly about the challenges women face at the very top of politics.
Christine de Pizan’s 15th-century feminist narrative has particular resonance today.
The decision to charge an incel youth with terrorism reinforces worrying trends in counterterrorism.
Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.
Zoom-bombing disrupts people’s use of the Zoom platform for work, study and socializing. Zoom-bombing events have included racist and misogynist attacks on users.
Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests.
“What would Julia do?” Julia Gillard smashed a glass ceiling as Australia’s 27th prime minister. She also transformed the way we talk and think about women in politics.
In Mexico City, feminist groups spray-painted the names of Mexico’s murdered women on the pavement of the Zócalo, the capital city’s enormous main square, during the International Women’s Day March.
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