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Feminism

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

Gender & Sexuality

Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally

On the fifteenth anniversary of Dworkin’s death, her longtime partner observes that she is often invoked to support beliefs she actively repudiated in her work.

John Stoltenberg

Arts in Society

AI’s Human Problem

Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity.

Alexis L. Boylan

Podcast

A People’s Anthology

From Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective, our new podcast explores key texts from the urban rebellions of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

‘Flexible’ Family Leave Is Lousy Feminism

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. 

Gina Schouten

Reading Lists

The World’s Top 50 Thinkers

Twenty percent of them are Boston Review contributors! 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

Pleasure and Danger

Linda Hirshman’s new book "Reckoning" poses a false dichotomy between two kinds of feminism: those fighting for sexual liberation and those fighting for equality. We don’t have to give up one for the sake of the other.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Sex Work Is Work

—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

Toward a Democratic Hedonism

Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?

Joseph J. Fischel

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