In Muriel Rukeyser’s poem ‘Myth’, an old, blind Oedipus asks the Sphinx, ‘Why didn’t I recognize my mother?’ The Sphinx replies that Oedipus answered her question (what walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening) incorrectly. ‘[Y]ou answered, Man. You didn’t say anything about woman.’ But, replies Oedipus, when

But misreading and ignoring identity is exactly what obfuscating maleness under the guise of gender-neutral universality causes us to do.

And so these differences go ignored, and we proceed as if the male body and its attendant life experience are gender neutral. This is a…

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Irritating, certainly. Unjust,…

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For these women, the consequences of living in a world built around male…

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Pierre Bourdieu wrote in 1977 that ‘what is essential goes without saying because it comes without saying: the tradition is silent, not least about itself as a

This is called ‘trip-chaining’, a travel pattern of several small interconnected trips that has been observed in women around the world.

Numerous studies in a variety of languages over the past forty years have consistently found that what is called the ‘generic masculine’ (using words like ‘he’ in a gender-neutral way) is not in fact read generically.20 It is read overwhelmingly as male.

Because when we say human, on the whole,…

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