The unrealistic ideals placed on female athletes are not only ignorant, but also deeply harmful, writes Lauren Fleshman.

One of the most popular explanations for why menopause evolved in some species is called the grandmother hypothesis. Essentially, older females stop having offspring of their own, and redirect energy ...

In “The Second Sex” (1949), Simone de Beauvoir examined the social situation of women, arguing that in Western culture men are treated as Subjects whereas women are relegated to Others. Cat Bohannon’s ...

Human origins. Cat Bohannon, Author, "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution": Yes, here we are. Jeffrey Brown: Where Cat Bohannon first came as a child and now with a ...

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Cat Bohannon Knopf/Hutchinson Heinemann (2023) What is a woman? In Eve, Cat Bohannon traces the development of female bodies back ...

Edwina Preston has received funding from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. She works for the Australian Education Union American essayist Cat Bohannon loves a bit of pop ...