Anne-Marie Slaugther’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” has come under much criticism this week for ignoring the needs and priorities of poor women,...
Mad Men has always been about how power operates in relationships: How it operates between people in disparate way and what that does to relationships. How it complicates, ruins and sometimes...
BBC’s Sherlock has just started running its second season in the US on PBS, and viewers are flocking to watch, particularly after last week’s somewhat controversial Irene Adler storyline. Created...
8 March! Don’t we love 8 March? It is that wonderful day during the course of which we internationally celebrate women! Women are pretty great. I know because I am one of them. Women are, however,...
As the world’s largest doc fest the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is jam-packed with nonfiction gems from around the globe. Yet one of my most delightful and surprising finds at...
Who likes to show Valentine's Day a bit of love? Show of hands. I, for one, never have, because it has seemed to me that squishing expressions of love into one day of socially-approved...
What role, if any, should men with a history of abuse of women have in feminism? This question is at the heart of ongoing debates in the feminist blogosphere over Hugo Schwyzer, a professor of gender...
Late last night, as I was lying in bed, pondering which of the day’s many issues could possibly be relevant and serious enough to merit coverage in my column at Global Comment, I heard the sound of...
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a writer, activist and executive editor of feminist website Feministing.com. Her first book Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life discusses contemporary dating...
C*nt. Bitch. Whore. Likely you've read these and other epithets, and related threats, flying around the internet recently. If you're not a woman or a feminist-minded blogger, you might not be used to...