Books & arts
31 October 2024
Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals
Books & arts
10 September 2024
How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity
Books & arts
4 September 2024
Campaigners have repudiated “maternal citizenship” in favour of a continuing quest for “sexual citizenship”
Books & arts
23 August 2024
Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic
Essays & reportage
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Correspondents
16 August 2024
Some polls suggest the Democratic nominee can hold her own among male voters despite Donald Trump’s misogynistic attacks
Essays & reportage
18 June 2024
In search of the women behind the The Worker Cook Book
Books & arts
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s Consent Laid Bare part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & arts
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & arts
18 October 2023
There’s more than one way forward for harried households
Books & arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public voice and private life
Books & arts
14 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
International
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
Essays & reportage
24 March 2023
That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s
Essays & reportage
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
Books & arts
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
National affairs
22 September 2021
Female politicians are no longer rare, and the prospect of a female PM nowhere near as challenging. What seems to matter is how they get there
Books & arts
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
Books & arts
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Essays & reportage
13 September 2021
How keyboard warriors are displacing men’s right groups
From the archive
13 August 2021
Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan?
Books & arts
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
From the archive
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & arts
9 July 2021
With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented