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Summer 2018

Once and Future Feminist

New technologies have long promised to “liberate” women, but the results are often uneven. This issue asks whether genuinely emancipatory feminism is possible today and what it might look like. Guest edited by Merve Emre.

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Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
 
 

Forum: All Reproduction Is Assisted

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Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

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Merve Emre

Emre downplays the issues of safety, effectiveness, and ethics.

Marcy Darnovsky

Missing from Emre is a sustained examination of race.

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Having a child is a very stupid idea.

Andrea Long Chu

The gender of gestating is ambiguous.

Sophie Lewis

A positive right to reproduce.

Merve Emre

Many ARTs are unsafe and often end in failure.

Miriam Zoll

We should reject the assisted/ natural dichotomy.

Diane Tober

Life is complicated, and Emre leaves room for vulnerability.

Irina Aristarkhova

ARTs encourage an ableist norm.

Chris Kaposy

Racism is central to reproductive injustice.

Annie Menzel

Essays

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Every Woman Is a Working Woman

Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

Silvia Federici, Jill Richards
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Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

Sarah Sharma
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Aging into Feminism

Taking better care of homeless retirees is part of feminism’s next big challenge.

James G. Chappel
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A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73

How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.
Cathy O'Neil
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When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski

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