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Afflicted with a mental disorder, Carrie Mathison is an unlikely American hero, and seems a bad bet besides.

Slut-shaming, name-calling and no respect: welcome to life in literary America for a 21st century female author.

Straight culture teaches its children that sex is either of the jungle or the picket fence.

Two-thirds of immigrants to America are women and children. But current immigration policy and past reform proposals are, as the author calls it, "sexclusionary."

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

ABC’s hit show, created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington, is a truly original political soap opera.

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

As the US withdrawal looms, women’s rights advocates plan to carry on their fierce, lonely fight.

The Helms Amendment bans the use of US foreign aid for all abortion care, including for victims of sexual assault. This International Women's Day, it's time to remember their plight.