Noah Berlatsky

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.