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Joanna Scanlan: ‘I felt like an embarrassed child running behind the elite pack’
Actor talks about Footlights, teaching, sage advice from doctor and new film After Love
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines
Clive James: Few others did so many things so well
James was sharp in his literary criticism and largely invented modern television criticism
Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’
The actor on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why Sinéad O’Connor was ‘100% right’
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Several infertile women worldwide have given birth with wombs received from either living or dead donors
The brave new world of wombless gestation
Artificial womb technology poses many ethical questions – we need to debate them
How to be a good man: what I learned from a month reading feminist classics
A year after the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a professor decided to do some deep reading
Germaine Greer: not everyone agrees with her – least of all Germaine Greer
The feminist academic and writer has been influential and infuriating in equal measure. And so she remains
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Germaine Greer: ‘Most rape is just lazy, careless and insensitive’
Author and feminist academic calls for punishment for rape to be reduced
‘For many women in Ireland, young and old, retaliation was not an option’
Hilary Fannin: I found Germaine Greer's contribution to the #MeToo debate unpalatable - I don’t remember many women slapping men down
The Women’s Podcast: A strange and depressing night at the Dorchester
Alison O’Connor and Tara Flynn take a scalpel to some of the week’s stories with Kathy Sheridan
Germaine Greer: Women who ‘spread their legs’ for parts in movies are ‘whinging’
#MeToo seems in danger of dissolving into futile, inter-generational warfare between people who are supposed to be on the same side. What a shame
Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door open
The actor knows all about standing up for his principles. Can he take that to Westminster?
Breda O’Brien: Selective outrage is a form of fake news
Kevin Myers is sacked only now but had said far worse about the Catholic Church
Transgender the latest battle in war over which opinions are considered sayable
Jenni Murray’s claim that trans women are not real women saw her given a warning by her employer the BBC
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Civility and respect beat political correctness every time
Denying a platform to those who disagree with you drives dissent underground
Online idiots of the far right and hard left turn on their own
Today’s alt-righters and SJWs have far more in common than they care to know
What hot flushes can tell us about our health
Men with testosterone deficiency can also experience hot flushes due to andropause
Menopause is not a disease. Hormones are not the cure
Men can also go through a hard time in their 50s but doctors do not blame a male menopause
Why are so many women choosing to reject pubic forestation?
Fear of the follicle is rampant in the pages of lifestyle magazines
Tattoos and dangers: myth or reality?
About 36% of people younger than 40 years have at least one tattoo
Caroline Aherne: the greatest clips
From her roles on The Fast Show to acerbic interviewer Mrs Merton, the comedian had a memorable way with words
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad review: weighty matters
This debut novel is a razor-sharp, mordantly funny look at self-induced starvation
Beards, sexism, bacteria and attractiveness in hipsters
Political beardies of the election? The bookish Gerry Adams and maritime James Reilly
Murder on the dancefloor with high heel horrors
The average time it took a man to approach a woman in a bar directly related to the height of their heel
Fionola Meredith: If Jeremy Clarkson’s vitriol is discrimination we are all victims
Oisín Tymon wrong to claim “lazy Irish c***” remark was ethnically motivated
Donald Clarke: James Bond and ‘Playboy’ turn over a new leaf
Twin relics of an age of bogus sophistication have finally started to move with the times
Germaine Greer: my pet forest
The influential author – now 76 – has chosen the restoration of an Australian rainforest as her personal legacy project. The passion she puts into it is familiar from ‘The Female Eunuch’, as is her provocative approach
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