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Tag: Feminism

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Rachel Fraser

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Will Holub-Moorman

A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.

Judith Levine

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

Becca Rothfeld

What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?

adrienne maree brown

The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

Lynne Segal

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Breanne Fahs

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Rachel Rebouché

On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Irina Zherebkina
Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?
Judith Levine

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

Emily Callaci
Known mainly as a realist, the writer used the gothic form to explore the horror of being confined by gender.
Jennifer R. Bernstein
After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.
Sara Matthiesen

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

nia t. evans, Beth E. Richie, Erica R. Meiners, Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis

The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

Lisa Duggan

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Sophie Lewis

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

Judith Levine
Porn performers have a unique vision for labor justice and erotic fulfillment, but they face draconian regulation and exploitative work conditions.
Joseph J. Fischel

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

Becca Rothfeld

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

John Crowley
Recent efforts to commemorate Laura Bassi—a pioneering physicist in eighteenth-century Italy—often say more about us than the world of women in science.
Paula Findlen
The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.
Judith Levine

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