The Mosuo, a culturally isolated community in south-western China, are as close as we can get to a matriarchal society.
50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act was passed, women in Northern Ireland still has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
Q&A with Nathan Kravis, author of "On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud"
Laurie Taylor takes a trip to the gym.
People have kept diaries for centuries – and now they’re being reinvented for the era of social media. What purpose do they serve?
As the population increases, so does the number of corpses – and the way we dispose of the dead may be about to change.
The term "brainwashing" is often used as a catch-all explanation when motivations are too difficult to understand.
Laurie Taylor embraces the joys of domestic quiescence.
Social taboos over menstruation cause undue shame to millions of women – but it is finally being understood as a human rights issue.
Laurie Taylor goes to the opera.