The same fundamentals apply to patriarchal systems, whether in Hollywood or India: Threats to men’s status can provoke broader resistance than you might think.
Tag: Women and Girls
A Post-Roe America
We look at what abortion access would look like.
The Fall of the ‘Sun King’ of French TV, and the Myth of Seduction
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, known as a great seducer, has been accused by more than 20 women of rape, sexual assault and harassment in France’s belated #MeToo reckoning.
French Minister Damien Abad Is Accused of Rape by 2 Women
The women’s allegations against France’s new minister for solidarity and disabled people come amid a growing reckoning over sexist and sexually violent behavior by political figures.
France’s New Prime Minister Overcame Tragedy in Her Youth
Élisabeth Borne’s father, a World War II resistance member and a Holocaust survivor, killed himself when she was 11, an experience she has rarely discussed in detail.
The 17th-Century English Judge Behind Abortion and Rape Rulings Today
Both in India and in the Roe v. Wade draft ruling roiling the United States, Lord Matthew Hale — an English judge who wrote that women were contractually obligated to husbands — still looms large.
Spain Considers Bill to Give Period Leave to Women With Menstrual Pain
A draft law would allow women to stay home if they are diagnosed by a doctor. It would also extend abortion access, but it faces an arduous path through Parliament.
The Foot Soldiers in India’s Battle to Improve Public Health
Over a million female health workers treat India’s most at-risk women and children, for little pay and sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
Estonia’s Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Putin
Kaja Kallas, the prime minister, remembers the repression of life under Soviet rule and sees the same brutality in occupied Ukraine, which she believes is fighting for all of Europe.
An Intimate Look at Mexico’s Indigenous Seri People
The identity of the Seri is integrally tied to their natural environment, which in recent years has been susceptible to an increasing number of existential threats.