Strong female characters fill the horror genre. Some of our earliest folklore features not only the monsters that terrify us, but the women who fight back. In fact, it’s in the stories about things ...

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead. As the ...

Does matriarchy exist? Peggy Reeves Sanday says yes. For two decades, Ms. Sanday, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying gender in West Sumatra, Indonesia. In ...