Feminism

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

  • Judith Levine

Not All Mothers

The female body is not, as Ariel Levy claims, the ultimate equalizer.

  • Judith Levine

The Goddess of Loss

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

  • Ulka Anjaria

Hillary Clinton and the Unqualified Right to Abortion

She is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

  • Judith Levine

Introduction to Reading Other Women

Literature can be a primary engine of dialogue and empathy, but it—or rather, the reading public—is often complicit in the silencing of global women of color.

  • Rafia Zakaria

Transparents

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

  • Judith Levine

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The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

The Problem of Punishment

Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?

  • Judith Levine

The End of Gender

Eileen Myles’s celebrity shouldn’t eclipse her skill as a poet.

  • erica kaufman

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz

The Spectacle of Transformation

The literal and metaphorical shapeshifting of the female body.

  • Marcela Sulak

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

The Volatile I

Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry finally gets the English translation it deserves.

  • Johannes Göransson

Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won’t Forget Twice

The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.

  • Terese Svoboda

Rethinking Evolution

Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Invisibility of Black Women

Black women too often go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

  • Christopher Lebron

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

It’s an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Our Panics, Ourselves

Richard Beck’s new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s.

  • Rebecca Onion

The Passion of Ellen Willis

On the feminist essayist, journalist, and music critic who championed women’s liberation.

  • Judith Levine

Wharton, Colette, Lispector

Between 1885 and 1943, three brilliant female novelists married young, to men who would never understand their passions or come to terms with the scope of their gifts.

  • Max Nelson

How Should a Friendship Be?

On the reissue of Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk.

  • Maggie Doherty

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert

For female travel writers, it’s a risk.

  • Jessa Crispin

The Seduction of Normalcy

On Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts.

  • Diana Arterian
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