Could a cultural movement really take on the trappings of a religion and rival the faith that has shaped lives for centuries?

Several years ago, Carrie Gress and I had a brief but memorable conversation about feminism. She was working at that time on her book The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture From Toxic Femininity.

A Catholic author argued feminism functions as secular "megachurch" rivaling Christianity in a new book examining the movement's religious-like structure and doctrines.

Feminism is a broad church and the online discourse around it is so frequently dominated by conflict between different schools of feminism that it can be difficult to pinpoint what it’s all about. In ...

If you asked Rosalie Fisher, an instructor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, if she thought feminism was moving in the right direction prior to the 2025 presidential inauguration, she ...

Readers react to articles about a feminist backlash and the 50th anniversary of Ms. magazine. To the Editor: Re “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, June 19): While reading ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Serena Shen. Buy this photo. This spring, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a ...

British writer Mary Harrington has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking feminist critics of our time, precisely because she questions the very assumptions that modern feminism holds most dear.

An interview with the best-selling author about her latest project, The Portable Feminist Reader. Roxane Gay is one of the most incisive cultural critics writing today. She landed in the center of ...

Sophie Lewis grapples with the ways the feminist movement has harbored prejudices and abetted wrongdoing in Enemy Feminisims. Every institution is prone to rot—even great causes like feminism. It ...

I recently listened to a podcast by Glennon Doyle, a progressive, white feminist, author, and life coach, during which I heard her dismissing a correction of her pronunciation of the Sanskrit word ...