Joan Smith

Joan Smith is a novelist, essayist, columnist and campaigner for human rights. Her latest book is Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists (riverrun, 2019). She tweets at @polblonde

The House of Lords has failed to pass an amendment to ensure female prisoners’ safety

Women deserve better than a half-baked poster campaign

The danger of endorsing extreme gender ideology

Why make such efforts to avoid using the word “women”?