“Women Talking” is an exploration of the way that religion can be used to imprison people—and what’s worse, to teach them to imprison themselves.
Women’s Issues
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance put the power of pregnancy center stage
The singer’s halftime performance illuminated some of the tensions experienced by pregnant women in the public eye.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Two novels about women of laughter and resilience
In ‘How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water’ by Angie Cruz and ‘Factory Girls’ by Michelle Gallen, readers encounter female protagonists who are smart, tough, hilarious survivors.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A post-Roe field hospital
We need to lead a revolution of mercy—and truth.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The sexual revolution has hurt both men and women. Where do we go from here?
Louise Perry’s argument against the sexual revolution raises a difficult question for readers: Given the fraught situation in which the sexual revolution has left many women and men, where do we go from here?
Posted inFeatures, Magazine
Hours of Need: One nonprofit’s holistic approach to helping incarcerated women and their families
Since 1992, Hour Children has aimed to prepare women during their sentence for re-entry into society and then provide support after it ends.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope: ‘Every time a woman comes in to do a job in the Vatican, things get better’
“A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished,” he said.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Violence against women is a plague in South Africa
Advocates for the protection of women charge that rape is systemic and endemic in South Africa. Police statistics confirm this: There are about 115 rapes per day, a level that is among the highest in the world.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How I found healing after rape, an abortion and the loss of a very-much-wanted baby
Based on my personal experience, I have spent years trying to help women find healing, acceptance, reconciliation and hope after making one of the most excruciating and difficult decisions of their lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What is a woman?
Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.