The cult of natural childbirth has gone too far
A report condemning midwife ‘musketeers’ of Morecambe Bay brought back memories of my own emergency caesarean. Being bullied into a natural birth is not what I call feminism
My ambition is to empower all women to have orgasms
Indonesia needs to scrap demeaning virginity tests, says campaigner Firliana Purwanti. Sexual liberation is the path to equality
What can Britain’s feminist activists learn from abroad?
Women face tough struggles in the UK – so it’s easy to forget that these are just part of a wealth of feminist campaigning worldwide
Yoko Ono and Madonna both fight ageism – in radically different ways
Ono and Madonna have both felt the sharp edge of the ageism stick recently. Is it too much to hope that an artist can be loved for who she is?
Ketamine control plan condemned as potential disaster for world’s rural poor
Repeated Chinese attempts to tighten controls on drug described as ‘David and Goliath struggle’ between poor and rich countries
Shopping vouchers ‘most effective’ way to help pregnant women stop smoking
One-fifth kicked the habit before giving birth when receiving financial incentives in a Cambridge university study, more than twice the rate using traditional services
Women’s bodies can’t perform magic. Someone please tell Republicans
One congressman this week thought that if women swallow pills, they end up in their vagina. The GOP still knows nothing about female anatomy.
So most women don’t wash every day – what’s the big deal?
Our bodies are still more pampered than our ancestors’. But it is a shame the time for personal grooming is being squeezed out of our busy lives
If a woman isn’t interested in sex, the problem quite possibly isn’t with her
A lack of desire for a particular partner can’t be cured with a pill. Sometimes, it takes a little work
It’s not Cindy Crawford’s job to fix our Photoshop culture
When someone else’s photos leak without their permission, it’s an invasion of privacy. Why not this time?