Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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