10 Best Articles on Feminism
The most useful articles on feminism from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Feminism Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on feminism by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on feminism—all under 10 minutes.
Goodbye to Sheryl Sandberg, Feminism’s Finance Bro
Nothing good ever comes out of the crackling hellfire of corporate America.
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith review
A compelling account of ageism and misogyny that overemphasises feminism’s generational divide
‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution’: How feminism let women down
Has the sexual revolution let women down? An author examines the gap between the rhetoric and the real world when it comes to valuing women.
Despite stark gender inequality in South Korea, hostility to feminism is growing
Ambivalence and hostility to feminism exists despite stark inequality in South Korea, where women face the greatest wage gap of the 38 mostly high-income, developed member countries in the…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on feminism.
Gabrielle Suchon, Philosopher Queen of the Amazons
A notable and noteworthy exception is Gabrielle Suchon. Without any support of this kind, Suchon found a way to research, write, and publish works of rich philosophical argument that received…
Fighting the tyranny of ‘niceness’: why we need difficult women
Today’s thumbs-up, thumbs-down approach to feminism is boring and reductive. It is time to embrace complexity
How Feminism Ends
At least, the timing of the redefinition of “woman” is convenient. At the exact moment that we are implicitly evaluating the results of a century’s worth of upheaval on sexual roles, the key…
The crisis in modern masculinity
Around the world, luridly retro ideas of what it means to be a man have caused a rush of testosterone – from Bollywood bodybuilding to nuclear brinkmanship
How #MeToo revealed the central rift within feminism today
Feminism is a large, unwieldy movement, populated by diverse people in disparate circumstances. As such, an “individualist” feminist might disagree with many of the ideas that parade under the banner of feminism. The #MeToo movement and the criticism it inspired have made this clear. Where do you fall along these divisive and poorly demarcated lines? In this Guardian article, writer Moira Donegan defines the rift in feminism, petitioning individualist anti-#MeToo feminists not to dismiss the movement so readily. getAbstract recommends this article to feminists of all stripes and to anyone who views feminists as a homogenous group.
«feminism has come to contain two distinct understandings of sexism, and two wildly different, often incompatible ideas of how that problem should be solved»
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