The core of the issue is "that women cannot be defined in terms of their own interests, only those of others."

There are a set of beliefs about gender that are almost ubiquitous across the political spectrum, from left to right, from feminists to men’s rights activists.

Eventbrite - Rochester LitFest presents In Conversation with Victoria Smith - Saturday, March 15, 2025 at The Salvation Army, Rochester, England. Find event and ticket information.

Using the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point, Victoria Smith, author of the bestseller Hags, explores how traditional beliefs about women's 'kind' nature have been repackaged for an ag...

The author of 'Hags: The demonization of middle-aged women', and new book, (Un)Kind, Victoria explores the many issues women deal with.

In her 1986 book Hunger Strike, the feminist psychotherapist Susie Orbach highlighted the problem of hostile, abusive and above all ineffective treatments for anorexia sufferers. Such treatments…

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From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t af...

In a 1983 speech to a pro-feminist men’s group, Andrea Dworkin noted that men’s experience of trauma did not justify their abuse of women and children. On the contrary, she argued…

it is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Gisèle Pelicot became a symbol of courage when she waived her anonymity to attend the trial of her husband and 50 other men accused of raping her — and ignited fierce debate about the law surrounding ...

Last week saw the Supreme Court considering the question “what is a woman?”. If you’re thinking “but everyone knows the answer to that”, I totally agree. The fact is, it’s just a shorthand.

The presenter has yet to address specific claims which are now being investigated by a law firm appointed by Banijay UK, the company which makes MasterChef.

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