Society & Culture > Gender & sexuality
Quotas harm the cause
27 Feb 2014
The left should not succumb to neoliberalisms phoney version of equality, argues Yassamine Mather
Women Bishops & CofE: Irrelevant? If only
29 Nov 2012
The Church of Englands failure to accept women bishops is embarrassing, but solutions short of disestablishment are absurd, argues Paul Demarty
Ukip fostering row: Who’s fit to be a parent?
29 Nov 2012
If members of mainstream parties should not be barred from fostering, asks Eddie Ford, what about us extremists?
Ireland abortion scandal: Scrap the eighth amendment
22 Nov 2012
The current storm that has erupted over abortion rights shows no sign of abating, writes Anne Mc Shane
Sex: Ethical porn and exploitation
15 Nov 2012
Sarah McDonald reviews: Anne G Sabo, 'After pornified: how women are transforming pornography and why it really matters'. Zero Books, 2012, pp245, £12.99
Jimmy Savile: Establishment’s dirty little secret
18 Oct 2012
The establishment furore over the Jimmy Savile scandal has more to it than is being let on, reports Paul Demarty
Sex: Accepting assertion as fact
11 Oct 2012
Sarah McDonald reviews: Dr Brooke Magnanti The sex myth: why everything were told is wrong Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012, pp272, £14.99
NUS: Unreason all the way down
11 Oct 2012
The National Union of Students no-platforms George Galloway, Galloway sues the NUS, the left talks nonsense throughout and Paul Demarty wonders what the hell is going on
Pushing the button
13 Sep 2012
The Julian Assange furore is about war, not sex, argues Paul Demarty
A textbook paranoid narcissist
06 Sep 2012
As Julian Assange divides a confused left, Paul DeMarty seeks clarity
Rebelling against rural values in Warrington
09 Aug 2012
Shafilea Ahmeds honour killing, writes Eddie Ford, highlights the importance of rights and individual autonomy for young adults - especially women
Solidarity, morality and sex
12 Jul 2012
Simon Wells reviews: Gregor Gall An agency of their own: sex worker union organising Zero Books 2012, pp97, £9.99
End harassment of sex workers
07 Jun 2012
Prostitutes are being targeted in the run-up to the Olympic Games. Simon Wells reports
The abuse of abuse
17 May 2012
It is the social decay caused by capitalism, not race, that leads to acts of horror, says Paul Demarty.
Victims are not to blame
26 May 2011
We have been offered a glimpse of the chauvinist and sexist prejudices that are rife in society, argues Eddie Ford
'Islamic feminism' and women's emancipation
10 Mar 2011
Yassamine Mather examines the reality of the continuing struggle against the regime's oppression