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Zoe Williams
The Oscars whiteout is driven by racism – and greed
The Hollywood film industry has never tested the idea that a black actor could be more bankable than a white one
The injustice of miscarriage
We need to accept that things can go wrong and there is no place for blame or shame.
Hell is when Apple freezes ova
Forget freezing eggs – firms should welcome pregnancy as a chance to invest in its staff.
Free from male manipulation
Kate Bush shows how women come into their own if men don’t mess with their creativity.
Atheists: Excluded and overlooked
It’s not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
Play-Doh to Playboy
A US study of 4000 children has shown that what we have long been wringing our hands about with girls is also true of boys.
Ogling is an Olympic sport
An objectification amnesty has been declared for the duration of the Olympic Games – a smorgasbord of physical perfection, whatever your taste.
Olympics medal count excludes sex
Protecting athletes’ sexual health at the Olympics requires many years of planning. There are pool tables to distract them, for example.
Whipping up an S&M wet dream
Why oh why have the erotic fantasies in the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy seduced millions of women?
Divide and rule, feminists
When we try to present a united front we are not asking too much of ourselves, we are asking too little, says <b>Zoe Williams</b>.
Smacking will never be right
Parental duties must not be done in anger and corporal punishment is therefore not justified
Getting the bad news overload
Revolutions, earthquakes, famine, scandals and killings — the headlines keep coming relentlessly.
Strauss-Kahn is accused, but it’s the maid’s word on trial
The presumption of innocence is extended to defendants but any past infraction can be used to torpedo Diallo’s credibility.
Can a feminist rejoice in the likes of Beyoncé or Lagarde?
Powerful women help society muddle towards equality — even if the R&B star is marriage-fixated and the IMF chief is a neoliberal.
The pill that changed the world
Scientist Carl Djerassi discovered the pill 60 years ago — and set the ball rolling from conception to contraception and back to conception again.