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Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin, Editor in Chief of Bookslut, is author of the forthcoming The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Ex-Pats and Ex-Countries.

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Gender & Sexuality

Feminism in Lockdown

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

Jessa Crispin

Gender & Sexuality

Pathologizing Desire

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

Jessa Crispin

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

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

Jessa Crispin

Gender & Sexuality

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert

For female travel writers, it's a risk.

Jessa Crispin

Gender & Sexuality

Wounded Women

The assumption of female vulnerability threatens to invigorate the sexist evils it aims to combat.

Jessa Crispin

       

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