Noah Berlatsky

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.