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Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Feminism

Rachel Fraser

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Judith Levine

A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.

Becca Rothfeld

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

adrienne maree brown

What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?

Lynne Segal

Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

Breanne Fahs

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Rachel Rebouché

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Irina Zherebkina

Writing from a city under siege, a founder of the landmark Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies reflects on the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Judith Levine
Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?
Emily Callaci

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

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