Patriarchy

In a conversation with David Remnick for The New Yorker Radio Hour, the social critic, who has died, discusses masculinity, patriarchy, politics, and parenting—including the dynamics within her own family.

For women in the Middle East and beyond, the U.S. has been an unconvincing liberator.

What can twenty-eight hours of songs by the likes of Eminem, Cat Stevens, and the Crystals, performed on repeat, reveal about sexism? Ragnar Kjartansson, a self-described “patriarch in recovery,” led twenty-four female and nonbinary musicians to find out.

How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within.

In three slim, singular books, the author asks what a woman recognizes when she sees herself in another woman.

For many women, growing up involves a transformation from subject to object. In her new book, Melissa Febos asks whether we can reverse the process.

Though it was written and directed by men, the movie feels like a cry for help sent telepathically from the fifties.

The filmmakers Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambéty dramatize the destructive ramifications of patriarchy.