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Carol Flinders, medieval scholar and pioneer at the intersection of feminism and spirituality, speaks with WIE about the women's liberation movement, its individual, cultural, spiritual, and political evolution—yesterday, today, and in the future.

Three feminist commentators—award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler, media studies professor and author Laura Kipnis, and whistle-blowing feminist Ariel Levy—weigh in on the status of women’s liberation in a world where much has changed for women yet many things remain the same.

WIE’s Elizabeth Debold speaks to What the Bleep Do We Know!? star J.Z. Knight about the extraordinary challenges—and spiritual possibilities—facing men in the twenty-first century.

Gender psychologists Helena Løvendal-Sørensen and Nick Duffell speak about how men and women can come together beyond the confines of traditional gender roles in a truly equal, creative, and liberated relationship.

EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen and senior editor Elizabeth Debold explore what a truly enlightened expression of gender might look like in the twenty-first century.

Helen Fisher, popular author (The First Sex, Why We Love) and media savvy anthropologist, speaks with WIE editor Jessica Roemischer about why women love to sleep with men at the top.

A feminist activist and author interviews her male spiritual teacher about why women's liberation and spiritual liberation have nothing to do with each other.

Noting the surprising absence of women at the leading edge of cultural change, Debold asks what happened to the revolution that women started in the last half of the 20th century—and calls women to once again aspire to transform the status quo.

Exploring the politics of women's liberation in North Africa. An interview with Donna Zajonc.

Do gay people have a special path to enlightenment? A Buddhist scholar and gay rights activist disputes many common convictions about gay spirituality.

“I don't think about men. I really don't care about them. I'm concerned with women's capacities.” A former Christian theologian and one of the most original and radical feminist thinkers of our time dismisses any attempt to include men in a discussion of gender and spirituality.

A feminist activist and author interviews her male spiritual teacher about why women's liberation and spiritual liberation have nothing to do with each other.

One of the foremost authorities in modern Hinduism explains why the only practice necessary for women to attain enlightenment is the worship of their husband as a god.

Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo—the first Western woman to be recognized as a reincarnated Tibetan tulku—speaks candidly about gender and enlightenment, her relationship with her students and being a female teacher in a male-dominated tradition.

“I'm not a man, I'm not a woman. I'm at the next stage, which includes man, woman and lots of other genders!” A self-styled “gender terrorist” and postoperative transsexual presents her unorthodox prescription for “gender freedom.”

The author of Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man takes no prisoners in his critique of the men's movement, the women's movement, the gay movement and enlightenment.

The late Trappist monk and teacher of centering prayer spoke passionately about realizing our innate divinity, which simultaneously transcends and celebrates gender.

Could it be that a patriarchal religion actually gives women more strength and confidence than the feminist movement? A discussion with two outspoken contemporary Orthodox Jewish women.

One of the world's foremost Jungian analysts explains why a mysterious feminine figure appearing in the dreams of contemporary men and women may hold the key to our planet's very survival.

“A literary agent once told me that if she put a call out for autobiographies, the next day she would have fifty on her desk from men and none from women.” A developmental psychologist shares some intriguing insights on why getting women to speak about self-mastery can be a difficult task.

An interview with a founder of the feminist spirituality movement.

A feminist speaks candidly about women and liberation.

An essay on liberation beyond gender.

There's a lot more to guru sex scandals than innocent victims fallen prey to unscrupulous teachers. Whether they're after wealth, security, social status, or enlightenment, women love men at the top, and they have for four million years.