Noah Berlatsky

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.