Bibiana Aído: ‘Latin America is advancing the gender agenda in the most sophisticated way’
The head of UN Women argues that, in the face of political setbacks, the region’s feminist movement offers many reasons for hope
A night at Maison Colbert: How the Paris residence of Simone de Beauvoir became a luxury hotel
The French writer and philosopher wrote ‘The Second Sex’, a masterpiece of contemporary feminism, on the top floor of this Neoclassical 17th-century building
Rebecca Traister: ‘Single women are less likely to vote conservative’
The journalist and author defends the power of women’s anger in her work: ‘Angry women have often been at the heart of all kinds of power shifts’
Alice Schwarzer, journalist: ‘We are facing profound changes in the relationship between the sexes. It’s dangerous’
Germany’s most influential feminist sees the self-determination of gender as a madness stemming from a capitalist system in which everything can be bought
The Danish queen who translated Simone de Beauvoir
Remembered above all for ‘The Second Sex,’ the French feminist is also the author of a raft of novels and memoirs in which she variously reflects on death
The end of the world, as written by women, has neither zombies nor asteroids
Climate change with its extreme drought, hurricanes and floods figures in the work of Agustina Bazterrica, María Ferencuhová and Elisa Díaz Castelo, as in that of Margaret Atwood and Gabriela Jáuregui
See, read and listen to modern Japan
Just two decades ago, the island country was seen as being so far away. But nowadays, it’s much closer culturally, while also forming part of the imagination of youth