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Let’s Talk Rape

Germaine Greer

Rape is a jagged outcrop in the vast monotonous landscape of bad sex

Female Fury

Militancy as a gender study

Masih Alinejad: ‘What made me different was that I took action’

Iranian activist-journalist Masih Alinejad reveals the importance of saying no to repressive regimes in her memoir

The Full-Time Ailing Woman

Heroines whose main activity is to remain ill and dutiful

Sabarimala: In Defence of Tradition

Why the battle for an inclusive Ayyappa worship makes no sense

Margo Jefferson: ‘You find ways to subvert White femininity in order to survive’

Margo Jefferson’s memoir about growing up as an elite African-American woman moves between femininity and feminism without getting polemical on either

Behind the Curtain

The unsung heroines of the Mughal era

She, She: Ha, Ha

A new crop of women comedians is breaking into the Indian stand-up circuit with edgy content and smart acts

A Dishonourable Killing

The price women in Pakistan pay for challenging social norms

Small Big World

Anuradha Roy has crafted the perfect novel on one woman’s search for freedom

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