Betty Friedan was one of the feminists particularly worried about lesbians. Friedan authored The Feminine Mystique, a 1963 book that revealed the dissatisfaction many women felt with traditional roles ...

Words have power. Sometimes they whisper.Sometimes they roar. And every once in a while, they shake the foundations of society so hard that nothing stays the same. These aren't just bestsellers or ...

A first-person account of repeated arrests, UAPA charges and jail life in West Bengal, revealing how protest is punished ...

Feminism has helped women gain things that once seemed impossible, or were treated like a luxury. The right to vote, access ...

Hammer & Hope co-founder Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has written a new introduction for an expanded second edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which includes the ...

At the Kolkata Literary Festival, Brinda Karat and Subhashini Ali delved into Karat's memoir, 'An Education for Rita: A Memoir, 1975–1985.' The discussion highlighted Karat's move to Delhi and her ...

Conservative activist Riley Gaines said on Saturday that “transgenderism,” “sexual liberation,” and abortion have “nothing” to do with women’s rights, issuing a warning about a “dangerous” feminist ...

An author of 11 books, including an upcoming title on feminism, says the movement has evolved into a kind of secular "megachurch" with its own doctrines, rituals and moral code — one that she argues ...

ABSTRACT: In the competitive art world of the 1960s in Western society, women struggled to make a name for themselves as the predominantly male audience refused to take their art seriously. The second ...

ABSTRACT: In the competitive art world of the 1960s in Western society, women struggled to make a name for themselves as the predominantly male audience refused to take their art seriously. The second ...

Ellen Meeropol, University of Michigan alumni and author, gestures while telling a story at the School of Social Work Education Conference Center Wednesday evening. Zayd Ahmad/DAILY. Buy this photo.

This time, the reader question was: What is the history of feminist plays that came before Liberation? Webster’s Dictionary defines feminism as “belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and ...