Feminism

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”

  • Cass Sunstein

Review: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Invitations to danger and salvation that makes the blues the blues.

  • Jonathan Gill

Victims and Agents

What Greek tragedy can teach us about sympathy and responsibility.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Magnolia Street Commune

A story of feminism, sexual conflict, radical politics, and the hope for community.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Feminism and multiculturalism may not be so easily reconciled.

  • Susan Moller Okin
with responses from
  • Katha Pollitt
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Yael Tamir
  • Sander Gilman
  • Robert C. Post
  • Bhikhu Parekh
  • Elizabeth Frazer
  • Saskia Sassen
  • Homi K. Bhabha
  • Joseph Raz
  • Janet Halley

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul

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Reinventing the Welfare State

Welfare reform is not just for policy wonks. It’s about the world of work and family we will pass on to the next generation.

  • Nancy Fraser
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • Lawrence Mead

Beyond Racism and Misogyny

Black feminism and the 2 Live Crew.

  • Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

  • Walter Kendrick

Feminism and Science

Feminist analysis compels us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about the principles, methods, and aims of science.

  • Evelyn Fox Keller

Rx for the Second Sex

  • Suzanne Gordon
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