Tag: Feminism

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.

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 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. 

The dichotomy between two kinds of feminism—one fighting for sexual liberation and one fighting for equality—is false.