Will All-Female Movie Remakes Help Gender Equality?
LAST WEEK, we heard the news that Sandra Bullock is to star in an all-female remake of Ocean’s Eleven. And we already know that Melissa…
Read onLAST WEEK, we heard the news that Sandra Bullock is to star in an all-female remake of Ocean’s Eleven. And we already know that Melissa…
Read onEARLIER THIS MONTH, a marketing campaign for the new film Suffragette showed the (all-white) cast — including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan — wearing tee…
Read onTHIS PAST SEPTEMBER 1ST, the Bushtember Foundation and NFCC International launched their women’s health campaign called “Let’s Face It. Period.” Using a blend of education,…
Read onTHIS WEEK, the Chicago Tribune published a story on an abortion doula. For those of unfamiliar with the term, a birth doula is someone who provides emotional and…
Read onCOME OCTOBER, women will be able to visit their local pharmacists and fill out a prescription for Addyi, a new drug that claims to increase…
Read onI WATCHED “THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL” at a press screening about a month ago, and when I left the theater, I left feeling…
Read onJOURNALIST RACHEL HILLS’ first book, The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, tackles what she names (and shames) as “the sex myth”…
Read onLATER THIS YEAR, my home state of California will become the first to provide oral contraceptives over the counter, after months of wondering whether birth…
Read onCYCLE TECHNOLOGIES describes their fertility awareness tools as “brilliantly simple.” Leslie Heyer founded the company in 2002, and since then she has developed the physical…
Read onIF HEADLINES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, an increasing number of women are rejecting hormonal contraceptives for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness. According to…
Read onHEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE AND THE WORLD is a collection of lively short histories, by author Rachel Swaby, on the work of past…
Read onIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, periods have gone public. Menstruation activism has been pushed up to the top of the feminist agenda, with women in…
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