feminism

Musician and poet Patti Smith: ‘always evolving’. Dan Himbrechts/AAPAgeist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise...

Image: Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame at the National Press Club last month. Mick Tsikas/AAPSexual politics is difficult terrain for young people to navigate. Desire,...

 Picture: NLA/AAP(various)Rage and roar are two words commonly used to describe the events of Monday 15 March, when tens of thousands joined the March4Justice:...

 Picture: AAP Image/Dave HuntThousands of women are gathering in cities across the country, angry about the allegations of rape, sexual abuse and harassment emerging...

National Film & Sound Archive Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised...

Kath and Kim (aka Jane Turner and Gina Riley): the suburban hornbags used swearing in clever ways in their 2002-2007 TV series.  Riley Turner...

Image: Shuttlestock Since the 2012 hit film Magic Mike explored the hedonistic lifestyle of men who strip for women, popular culture has exploded with images of sexy, muscular,...

Germaine Greer at The Chelsea Hotel in 1972. AAP Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in...

Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait, showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.  US Library of Congress/Flickr There are images of her everywhere, especially...

Picture: Jornada Produtora/Unsplash, Times of instability and crisis produce increased nostalgia for the past. We long for a time that no longer exists, or never...