Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Feminism

adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism

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

Lynne Segal

My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex

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

Rachel Rebouché

How the Federal Government Can Fight Abortion Bans

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

Boston Review

Reproductive Justice After Roe

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

Irina Zherebkina

Dispatch from Kharkiv National University

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

Hating Motherhood

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

Emily Callaci

Care Work in a Wageless World

As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

Sara Matthiesen

Abortion Is Not a “Choice” Without Racial Justice

After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.

Nia T. Evans, Beth E. Richie, Erica R. Meiners, Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis

Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

Don’t Miss a Thing