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Helen Lewis, Catherine Flay

Helen Lewis on Sex, Power and Influence

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Griselda Pollock

Love and Beauty after Feminism
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Finn Mackay

The Failure of Patriarchy
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Evie Prichard

When Women Rule the World…
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Niamh Corbett

Women in Business
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Alison Wolf

The XX Factor
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Serena Kutchinsky

Eggs: To Freeze or Not to Freeze?
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4 Perspectives on Feminism
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Margaret Heffernan

A Woman's World
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Niki Adams

Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers?
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Sexual Harassment and Feminism
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Kate Kirkpatrick

What is authentic love? Simone de Beauvoir's View
structures of abuse
Helen Beebee, Heather Widdows

Weinstein, philosophy, and structures of abuse
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Kate Kirkpatrick

Simone de Beauvoir's #MeToo
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Paul Davis

Why Does the World Cup Give Rise to Domestic Violence?
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Emma Sayle

Unnatural sex
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Jennifer Bilek

The body industry
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Julie Bindel

The body of feminism
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Louise Richardson-Self

Mind, body, meaning
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Jasmine Picôt-Chapman

Radical pronouns
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The future of feminism
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Sophie Grace Chappell

Does consciousness have a gender?
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Tamar Kricheli Katz, Tali Regev

Language and reality beyond gender

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Emma Syea

The false freedom of the female gaze
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Olivia Fane

Consciousness has no gender
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Tom O'Shea

Sexual desire is political
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Hazel T. Biana

The myth of the one true feminism
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Sam E. Greenberg

Unrestricted sexuality and the transcendent
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Lisabeth During

The right to no sex: a case for celibacy
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Kimberly Hamlin

The myth of man the hunter
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Judith Butler

Judith Butler: Gender is not a culture war