I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological...

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world;...

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage,...

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to...

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves. Critic John Berger's well-known quote has...

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How

...three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent...

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth

WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of...

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.