The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

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

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

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 

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.