Emma Watson, U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador, recently spoke at the U.N. Headquarters in New York in an attempt to clarify the meaning of “feminism” to a generation of women who seem to be missing the ...

While the debate seems driven by polar opposites, there are several gray areas clouding notions of what women want sexually, or whether it's even possible to accurately define female desire in a ...

If a woman has a sterling résumé, a supportive husband who speaks fluent car pool and a nurturing boss who just happens to be one of the most powerful women in the world herself, who or what is to ...

What happens when a 1971 town hall debate about women's liberation gets dramatized by an experimental theater company? The Wooster Group’s production, called "The Town Hall Affair," is playing now at ...

2nd wave feminism exploded in the 1960s, pushing beyond voting rights to confront issues like workplace inequality, reproductive freedom, and the cultural roles assigned to women. Activists challenged ...

Do people who hire sex workers deserve to go to jail, or should all laws prohibiting consensual sex work be repealed? On May 9, 2022, writer and activist Julie Bindel debated Reason's Elizabeth Nolan ...

Citizenship is both a contentious and contested struggle about the creation of rights, duties, and opportunities. Feminist practices and debates can clarify the meaning of citizenship. This is because ...

Is Superman a man or a woman? The answer may seem obvious, but it wasn't last night as Portlandia stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein stepped into their feminist-bookstore characters Toni and ...

There's nothing shocking about college-age students watching porn. Few, however, screen skin flicks with their strait-laced teacher providing running commentary around a porn film's predictable array ...