Tag: Feminism
The enduring relevance of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew has cemented itself as a 21st-century horror story, to say the least. However, a closer look at this play reveals sophisticated analysis of the dynamics men and women through comically flawed characters, highlighting the complicated and thorny relationship between man and woman since the fall.
Tickle v Giggle: If it’s ‘unimpeachable’ that biological sex can change,...
The case has a humorous name but serious implications. The Federal Court’s decision in Tickle v Giggle, that Roxanne Tickle is correctly described as a woman, has far-reaching consequences for all women-only spaces, writes Monica Doumit.
A reading list for women struggling to talk about the gender...
We know that younger women in Australia are feeling the full brunt of the fallout from the sexual revolution. Who is going to help them? Younger Catholic women can, if they are willing, build trusting and respectful relationships with women in crisis who are perhaps not Catholics, or poorly formed ones.
Canceling women (or when men make better women than women)
Recently, USA Today named US Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a biological man, “Woman of the Year.”
For years, governments and NGOs in the...
Monica Doumit: A flaw in one-issue politics
With the tragic bushfires still raging in a number of Australian towns, the smoky haze covering so many more, firefighters having to battle not...
