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opinion

Women are part of the community and the ICA has always known this

At the heart of the Ploughing Championships, the largest rural festival in Europe, is the stand of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association. And if the Ploughing has forced a rethink of the national relationship with rural life, maybe it’s time ICA forced a rethink of feminism.

Hey Greer, WTF sista? Maybe you should zip it

business

Hugh Hefner: A dirty old man or a great sexual liberator?

news

The women at the forefront of feminist activism in modern-day Ireland

general

Book review: Women’s Voices in Ireland

general

I’ve lost interest in having sex with my overweight wife

The sex lives of modern women ... fifty years on

FIFTY years ago Mary McCarthy’s novel shed light on http://exa.mn/mv. It shocked readers then, but today it seems almost tame.

Fri, 16 Aug, 2013

VICTORIA WHITE: Radical homemakers should lead new women’s liberation movement

ONE thousand women attended the meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin on Apr 14, 1971, when the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement was established.

Thu, 13 Jun, 2013

Economic divide becomes gender issue

The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super -rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle class is becoming a matriarchy, while the plutocracy remains firmly patriarchal.

Mon, 03 Jun, 2013

State’s services must catch up with what parents already know

IT’S nearly two weeks since psychologist Tony Humphreys sparked outraged by saying children on the autism spectrum were shutting down because of an “absence of expressed love” from their parents.

Tue, 21 Feb, 2012