Michelle Smith

Should literature come with trigger warnings

Miley Cyrus, Sinéad O’Connor and the future of feminism

Friday essay: transgenderism in film and literature

Inventing the wicked witch: review of Susan Bordo's The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

Friday essay: talking, writing and fighting like girls

From scolds to “talking underwater”: policing women’s voices

‘Not fit to be president’: Hillary Clinton and our problem with older women

Meg Ryan’s face and the historical battleground of ageing

No, you're not hardwired to stare at women's breasts

Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history