AS the summer of LGBT Pride rolls on, we are still asking if trans women can ever be ‘real’ women.

Young adult author Juno Dawson used to be a primary school teacher – and a man. In her new book she traces her journey from James to Juno, writes Suzanne Harrington

Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, has found herself in the unlikely company of Bridget Jones and Beyonce, thanks to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Power List for 2016.

Far from being a manufactured product, Girl Power defined Britpop better than a battling Blur and Oasis, says Caomhan Keane

Grey hair is hot as hell and we should embrace it says Suzanne Harrington

MANY people ask me how I managed to evoke such a vivid sense of what it’s like to be a teenage girl in both of my novels. It’s easy.

It was acceptable to describe one now retired female politician as a sumo wrestler, writes Terry Prone

Rose Martin looks at a new book on the life’s work of the self-taught and New Zealand-born creator of the boutique hotel concept.

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IN the early 1980s, the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood wrote about why men fear women — they fear that women may laugh at them — and why women fear men — they fear that men may kill them. And Germaine Greer famously wrote how few women have little idea of the extent many men hate them. Nah, you might think. Surely not.

His plays are renowned, but a new book unravels the mystery of the man, says Rita de Brun

SHE’S probably the most successful neophiliac ever.

NOT too long ago a (female) friend dared me to use the word ‘menstrual’ in this column: not so much out of juvenile playfulness but to demonstrate there are certain bodily functions which no one wants to read about or even contemplate.

EVERYONE loves a comeback, or do they? The mini-skirt, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, looks set to make a return and turn heads yet again.

Novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey won the top prize of €15,000 for her latest work, The Cold Eye of Heaven, at the 41st Listowel Writers’ Week, last night.

EVEN if you don’t read The Sunday Times, you may have heard about the fuss caused by a throwaway paragraph of critic AA Gill’s TV review.

MEN, it is not often that I encourage you to contravene a women’s privacy, but I do urge you all, when the moment arises, to have a sneaky peek into your other half’s top drawer.

THE victims of symphysiotomy surgery must be compensated as they have been left with serious disabilities, life-long incontinence and other long-term medical problems, a report will argue.

Feminist writer Germaine Greer was under pressure to apologise today after she suggested that British troops might take part in rapes if they are sent into Libya.

Feminist icon Germaine Greer has continued her public assault on the memory of late British royal Diana by branding her a "devious moron".

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been awarded the Plain English Campaign's Foot in Mouth award for 2006, for talking nonsense.

Viewing figures for Celebrity Big Brother have slumped since the departure of John McCririck.

Racing pundit John McCririck said he could not wait to get out of the Big Brother house as he became the second celebrity to be evicted.

Britain's Big Brother housemates are set to revel in an oompah party tonight with lederhosen, beer and folk music – if they pass their latest task.

Sylvester Stallone’s mother declared that her Big Brother housemates “lived like pigs”, after she became the first celebrity to be evicted.

Sylvester Stallone’s mother Jackie tonight became the first celebrity to be evicted from the UK's Big Brother house.

Celebrity Big Brother quitter Germaine Greer likened the show to a fascist prison and suggested it might be responsible for encouraging playground bullying, in a scathing attack after her shock departure.

Feminist icon Germaine Greer has admitted that going on Big Brother was “a mistake”.

Speculation mounted today over the identity of the old flame or current lover of a Celebrity Big Brother housemate who will join the show tonight.

An old flame or current love of a Celebrity Big Brother housemate is to join the show, it emerged tonight.

Self-confessed sexist John McCririck today continued to test the patience of the women in the Celebrity Big Brother House.

Racing pundit John McCririck got quickly into his stride on the first night of Celebrity Big Brother as he shamelessly flirted with model Caprice.

RENAISSANCE man is living in Cork and has just written a book with everything you ever wanted to know about life, the universe and, well, the male condition

I WISH to draw attention to the make-up of the commonly used drug HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).

Novelist Salman Rushdie was named the writer’s writer as he was honoured by fellow auths for his contribution to international literature.

Davina McCall is to present a Channel 4 documentary examining the phenomenon of Big Brother.

Former US President Bill Clinton is a sell-out at a British arts festival.