On the left and the right, commentators are playing fast and loose with references to totalitarianism.

What #MeToo's critics get wrong about the role social media plays in fighting sexual harassment

Why the backlash to the #MeToo movement is so depressingly familiar

The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

On Allison Benedikt, Lorin Stein, and the perils of extracting universal principles from fairytale endings

A series of sexual harassment allegations has vindicated the demands of student activists.

For more than 60 years, Schneemann fought against the way women's art is often dismissed.

A new book traces the nineteenth-century beginnings of women's self-defense training.

Abuse flourishes in hierarchical milieus like the film industry. Only democratic counter-institutions can stop it.

Breaking the law made Manal Al-Sharif a women's rights advocate, she explains in her memoir "Daring to Drive."

Anti-puritan but blind to his male privilege, the Playboy mogul liberated men by demeaning women.

The feminist intellectual died on Wednesday at 82. Her unapologetic utopianism offers lessons for all of us.

Two blockbuster stories reveal that securing basic workplace rights for mothers requires an insane amount of labor.

Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.

“The Bold Type” is a reboot of a now-familiar television genre, with an updated politics that doesn’t quite meet its moment.

How Angela Carter escaped a puritanical childhood and stifling marriage, and reimagined sexuality.