Tag: Feminism

Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.

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?

The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role 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.

An interview on the post-Dobbs legal landscape—and how the federal government can respond.

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.

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.

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

The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

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.

Which forms of oversight enhance erotic flourishing, and which quash it?

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.