Feminism
The Abortion Plot
A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.
My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich
The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
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.
After Dobbs
An interview on the post-Dobbs legal landscape—and how the federal government can respond.
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.
Dispatch from Kharkiv National University
On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Hating Motherhood
Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?
Care Work in a Wageless World
Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.
Edith Wharton’s Ghosts
Known mainly as a realist, the writer used the gothic form to explore the horror of being confined by gender.
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.
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.
How Domestic Labor Robs Women of Their Love
The glaring omission in recent works depicting the agonies of nannying and housekeeping.
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