Author’s Note: I would like to clarify that despite the marginalizing gaps and inconsistencies within Western feminism, abandoning it as a whole will only result in further prejudice. As women, and ...

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AT twenty, when I was secretary of a vocational bureau for women, I was a feminist. As a first premise, I thought with the founders of our best-known women’s colleges that young women should have ...

Confessions of an Ex-Feminist should be de rigueur for college freshmen. Starkly honest and to the point, this book touches upon the nerve, albeit a raw one, that triggers the loss of faith in so many ...

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Kaitlyn Dever lends her droll charisma and winsome comic timing to a safe yet delightful tale that nods to Shakespeare, Jane Austen and ’90s rom-coms in equal measure. But the film’s winsome ...

Emilia Vieira, a communications manager working for ex-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's nonprofit -- which provides shelter to homeless women and their children through government contracts -- ...

Louise Mensch is sure to attract a new wave of anger from feminists with her new brutally self-depreciating blog. While the former Corby MP constantly stresses her affiliation to the feminist cause, ...

CÉCILE: . . . Do you think it wrong for a girl to know Latin? PIERRE: Not if she can cook a hare or a partridge as well as Mademoiselle Auclair! She may read all the Latin she pleases. - WILLA CATHER, ...