Feminism

From the tale of America's female Jesus to philosophical marginalia: what to read this weekend

A report from the festival on feminism and public space in Hamburg

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Novelist Sarah Hall talks to Sarah Lucas about sculpture, sexual politics and representing Britain at the Venice Biennale

Re-reading Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex

Is the design world still a boys’ club?

The dark, unsettling feminism of Jacqueline Rose

Lady adventurers and the legacies of colonial history

Digital pasts and futures meet in the work of Aleksandra Domanović

Timotheus Vermeulen talks to philosopher Rosi Braidotti about the pitfalls of speculative realism

Berlin-based musician Jam Rostron aka Planningtorock tells Jan Kedves why US comedian Melissa McCarthy is a feminist icon

The uncomfortable world of Marlene McCarty

A number of  long-overdue exhibitions have recently celebrated the achievements of overlooked women artists. What’s driving this wave of rediscoveries?

For 40 years, Suzanne Lacy has worked collaboratively to create installations, videos and large-scale performances in response to social themes and urban issues

Have American conservatives taken over transgression?

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2010)

Mark Fisher attends a symposium at King’s College, London, on Lee Edelman’s challenging and shocking work of queer theory

What’s with the art world’s fascination with ‘bad boys’?

From Mexico to Egypt, Senegal to Colombia – examining approaches to feminist art-making

With found objects, drawings and paintings, Cathy Wilkes creates unexpected narratives suggesting psychological states and social codes