With songs about slut-shaming and body positivity, Iceland's punkest hip-hop crew are finally putting the country's female rappers on the map.

A giant gender barrier was nearly hurdled. We asked women to tell us about their own vividly recalled barriers. Here are some of their stories. By Mary Jo Murphy and Sona Patel. (Nov. 12, 2016)

True or False: Gender oppression is way worse than racial oppression... By Deesha Philyaw.

A feminist mother in Australia writes about rejecting her infant son because he was born male.

As online information fractures into alternate realities, Wikipedia is fruitlessly trying to quash its gender biases.

Giving robots “feminine” personalities implies human women should stick to the program. By Janna Avner.

“As Solnit notes: ‘There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without women is often said to be about humanity but a book with women in the foreground is a woman’s book.’”

An Interview with Deanna Day. By Jeffrey Kastner.

A century ago, widely circulated images and cartoons helped drive the debate about whether women should have the right to vote. By Adrienne LaFrance.

Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. By Mirah Curzer.

Emily Greenhouse reviews "The Essential Ellen Willis," edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz. (Summer 2014)

We can’t afford to live lives we have to fool ourselves into tolerating. By Kristi Coulter. (Aug. 21, 2016)

Steven Epstein looks at two new books from Victoria Pitts-Taylor, "Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism" and "The Brain's Body."

‘I can easily recall my first brush with porn’. Andrea Stuart explores the divide between mainstream and feminist porn.

Tucked away between the rugged gorges and valleys of the Ethiopian highlands is an egalitarian commune that defies the norms of traditional society. Awra Amba, founded in the utopian mold 44 years ago, has managed to thrive where so many other attempts have failed. Awra Amba could be described as communist, puritanical, pantheistic, feminist, or even cult-like, but its 450 residents are wary of such descriptors. They believe their philosophy, as dictated by the community’s soft-spoken founder Zumra Nuru, is too easily distorted by cultural and linguistic differences to be labeled accurately by outsiders.

An $800,000 investigation into Planned Parenthood’s alleged ‘fetal tissue profit’ has come up empty-handed.

The Sonoma Stompers signed female players earlier this summer. Over the weekend, the team won the league title.

​​In the Mara region of northern Tanzania, Abigail Haworth discovers an empowering tribal tradition undergoing a modern revival.

The ethics of consuming “the most dramatically feminine sport.” By Meghan O'Rourke.

I'm trying to make peace with the idea that, in almost every struggle I care passionately about, I am going to live the rest of my life without winning.