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Tag: Feminism

Rachel Fraser

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Will Holub-Moorman

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

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.

Jennifer R. Bernstein
Known mainly as a realist, the writer used the gothic form to explore the horror of being confined by gender.
Sara Matthiesen
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
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Lisa Duggan
The 1980s sex wars are most strongly associated with conflict over pornography. But a central component, often lost in present-day recollections, was a debate over the politics of queer desire.
Sophie Lewis

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Judith Levine

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

Joseph J. Fischel
Porn performers have a unique vision for labor justice and erotic fulfillment, but they face draconian regulation and exploitative work conditions.
Becca Rothfeld

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

John Crowley

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

Paula Findlen
Recent efforts to commemorate Laura Bassi—a pioneering physicist in eighteenth-century Italy—often say more about us than the world of women in science.
Judith Levine
The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.
Boston Review, Rosie Gillies
Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
Boston Review, Rosie Gillies
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Boston Review, Rosie Gillies

Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”

Boston Review, Rosie Gillies
Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
Jessa Crispin

The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns. 

Vivian Gornick

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

Julie C. Suk

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Milli Lake, Marie E. Berry
Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.
Jessa Crispin

Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency. 

Alexander Livingston

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory.

Whitney Phillips
Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.
Erica R. Meiners, Judith Levine

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.

Jennifer M. Piscopo

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

Shauna L. Shames, Jennifer M. Piscopo
On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.
Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman
What does gender equity in a democracy look like?
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.

John Stoltenberg
On the fifteenth anniversary of Dworkin’s death, her longtime partner observes that she is often invoked to support beliefs she actively repudiated in her work.
Alexis L. Boylan

Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity.

Gina Schouten

Balancing work-life pressures is often considered the holy grail, but men can still opt out of these policies. To move the needle on gender inequality, the state needs to take more coercive action. 

Judith Levine

Linda Hirshman’s new book Reckoning poses a false dichotomy between two kinds of feminism: those fighting for sexual liberation and those fighting for equality. We don’t have to give up one for the sake of the other.

Joseph J. Fischel
Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?

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