Gender and Sexuality

Naples, Italy.

Conditions of Emergence: On Elena Ferrante Conditions of Emergence: On Elena Ferrante

In the pseudonymous author’s Neapolitan Novels, the price of leaving Naples is that you can never be at home again.

Sep 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Carly Fiorina’s Planned-Parenthood Distortions Get Worse

Carly Fiorina’s Planned-Parenthood Distortions Get Worse Carly Fiorina’s Planned-Parenthood Distortions Get Worse

The footage Fiorina described during last week’s debate doesn’t actually exist, so a PAC supporting her tried to create it.

Sep 23, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

The False Compassion of Pope Francis

The False Compassion of Pope Francis The False Compassion of Pope Francis

No, women who get abortions aren’t automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. But you wouldn’t know that from the pope.

Sep 21, 2015 / Frances Kissling

The Problem With Idolizing Sexual Liberation

The Problem With Idolizing Sexual Liberation The Problem With Idolizing Sexual Liberation

For a lot of people, the contemporary sexual regime celebrating pleasure above all else isn’t that much fun.

Sep 14, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg

In the Year of #BlackGirlMagic, Marion Jones Is Missing

In the Year of #BlackGirlMagic, Marion Jones Is Missing In the Year of #BlackGirlMagic, Marion Jones Is Missing

In this magical year of women in sports, we would do well to remember the triumphs and lessons of Marion Jones.

Sep 11, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Rafia Zakaria (credit: Jeremy Hogan)

Divided Affections Divided Affections

One writer’s fight against traditions that stifle women in Pakistan.

Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Kim Davis

Kim Davis Kim Davis

The Rowan County clerk, Kim Davis, Believes that Jesus came to save us, And her beliefs she would betray OK’ing marriage that is gay. The judge said, when he heard her tale, Just d…

Sep 10, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Representative Goodlatte greeting witnesses who appeared at the hearing

Republicans Hold a Planned Parenthood ‘Show Trial’ Based on Videos They Haven’t Seen Republicans Hold a Planned Parenthood ‘Show Trial’ Based on Videos They Haven’t Seen

“Joseph McCarthy would be proud of this committee today,’’ said one Democrat.

Sep 9, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Welcome to ‘Bitch Planet’, the Feminist Sci-Fi Comic You’ve Been Waiting For

Welcome to ‘Bitch Planet’, the Feminist Sci-Fi Comic You’ve Been Waiting For Welcome to ‘Bitch Planet’, the Feminist Sci-Fi Comic You’ve Been Waiting For

In Kelly Sue Deconnick’s newest series, Earth is run by white males who carry the title of “Father” and women deemed “non-compliant” are shipped off the planet. But these women are...

Sep 9, 2015 / Loren A. Lynch

Young mothers at a health clinic in Manila. In 2012, the Catholic Church opposed a bill guaranteeing access to birth control and sex education in the Philippines. Credit: Erik de Castro / Reuters

If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist

The world will never be healed of its ecological ills as long as women cannot control their fertility.

Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Katha Pollitt

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