Women

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s obscure forces

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, published a century ago, is a powerful reverie on women’s interwar status

No one is immune to the rage that drives our politics

Young women – today and always – are less susceptible to delusions of grandeur

Revealed: the new radicalism among young women

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s

Alice Coltrane’s transcendent score

A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher calling

Make porn expensive again

The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore

Freya India can’t save our girls

Gen Z women already know their issues. They want solutions

The probation system is failing women

Unable to trust restraining orders, some victims are tracking down their own abusers

How to turn breast milk into a cash cow

The market for erotic lactation, IVF and surrogacy is a morally complex world of desperation and exploitation

Why does Emerald Fennell keep killing women off?

The director charges towards whatever cultural argument is burning hottest

Is Bridget Phillipson really the most dangerous woman in Britain?

The Education Secretary on Send reform, gender and the year that could make or break the government

The Epstein files prove the MeToo backlash went too far

We have forgotten the omnipresence of misogyny

Claudia Winkleman is what women want to be

What is it about The Traitors host that makes her a hero to so many?

Young women are radicalising

Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing

Why can’t I get contraception as a gay woman?

Because I am dating a woman, I was refused a coil – a routine treatment to help manage period pain

The feminisation mystique: who ruined the West?

If we must blame something, blame capitalism

The Diddy judgement doesn’t mean MeToo is dead

Sean Combs’s short sentence doesn’t mean real feminist progress isn’t happening outside of the spotlight

Trump, Tylenol and toughing it out

The US president follows an age-old tradition of telling women they have to suffer to be proper mothers

Far-right protesters cower behind motherhood

Lost men are using mothers to launder their dirty ideas

Born in chains

Prisons abandon women to give birth alone – at great risk to their lives, and those of their babies.

November 1913: Christabel Pankhurst calls for militancy in the fight for female suffrage.