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Feminism

Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

The Obligation of Self-Discovery

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Save the Equal Rights Amendment

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Julie C. Suk

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

When Quotas Come Up Short

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake

Gender & Sexuality

Pathologizing Desire

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

Jessa Crispin

Politics

Inventing Nonviolence

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent politics can be effective?

Alexander Livingston

Gender & Sexuality

Whose Anger Counts?

Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.

Whitney Phillips

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

Forum

What Does It Take to Get Women Elected?

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

Jennifer M. Piscopo

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Without Women There Is No Democracy

On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.

Jennifer M. Piscopo, Shauna L. Shames

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

From the Editors: The Right to Be Elected

What does gender equity in a democracy look like?

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

Reading Lists

Trans Mothers. Marxist Mothers. Robot Mothers.

—and those who wish they could be mothers. A reading list for Mother’s Day.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Race

Identity Politics and Elite Capture

The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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