Cordelia Fine

Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine is a professor of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. Her latest book is Testosterone Rex.

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March 1, 2017

Business as usual?

Society

The confused case for corporate gender equality

A quota success story: an elected female representative leads an Indian village meeting for local women. Courtesy of the Hunger Project.

March 2, 2012

Status Quota

Feminism

Do Mandatory Gender Quotas Work?

Bill Henson, 'Untitled', 2009/2010. Image courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.

November 1, 2012

The Vagina Dialogues: Do women really want less sex than men?

Sexuality

In every healthy young man the instinct of sex is present, controlled or allowed to run riot according to his strength of self-control and elevation of mind. Some young women possess it in as great, and in rare cases even a greater degree; but in …

Five thousand New York women march against porn on 20 October 1979. © Bettmann/Corbis

September 1, 2011

The porn ultimatum

essay

The dehumanising effects of smut

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