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Feminism
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“Seize the Means of Knowledge Production”: Durba Mitra on Third World Feminists and Their Fight Against Patriarchal Authoritarianism
“I suggest that the building of women’s organizations through cross border collaboration leads to a total transformation of civil society.”
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The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are…
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Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial
In both “Saint Omer” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” we are meant to identify with the defendants—albeit for different reasons.
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B-Sides: Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book”
In Gloria Steinem’s now-forgotten first book, she offers detailed instructions on how to build a sandcastle, how to tan, how to peel if you burn, and more.
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Women on the Verge
Can women poets change the discourses in which they are recognized?
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How to Botch a Horror-Feminist Sequel in Seven Depressing Steps: “Alien: Romulus”
“Alien: Romulus” is primarily concerned with its aesthetics, not with its ethics. But post-Dobbs, it needed to do more than look good.
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“She Really Wanted Nothing to Do with It”: Gabriel Brownstein on the Ongoing Question of “Hysteria”
“I really became interested in the part of Freud that we don’t know much about, Freud before he became Freud.”
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Women’s Land and Language: Huntington, Vermont
In the physical space of HOWL, a feminist and separatist living community, discussion of feminist ideas takes on urgency when confronted with the immediate practicalities of daily living.
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John Plotz on Earthsea, Anarchism, and Ursula K. Le Guin
“Rather than thinking of creative arts and sciences as ‘two cultures,’ we should realize that they’re running on parallel tracks.”
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A #MeToo Novel That Must Be Read #WithYou
A South Korean novel critiques violent misogyny within a literature department. Remarkably, it does so by addressing the reader directly.
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“The Witch” and the History of Euro-American Domestic Violence
“Women and children in Western history could and did find in witchcraft relief from the violence they endured in their own families.”
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Speaking the Monster: Ecofeminism in “Alien” and “Aliens”
“The Alien movies model how patriarchal culture distracts people from capitalism’s parasitism by designating women as the real threat.”
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“Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar
“The survival of the world depends on the gendered work of subsistence and reproduction, carried out predominantly by women in the global South.”
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Weaving a Feminist Cyberlaw
Women invented cyberspace. Yet today’s internet rewards misogyny with fame, wealth, and power. Could it be otherwise?
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Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident
When did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising?
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Listening to #MeToo
“Speaking out” is what began the #MeToo movement. But fulfilling its goals will require listening.
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“We Plot to Undo the World”
Artist Simone Leigh curated a series of intellectual sermons directed by Black women who grieved, strategized, loved, and yearned for community.
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Can Motherhood Bend Toward Justice?
Can the work of mothering and everyday acts of care merge with efforts to achieve social justice?
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Can You Feel It? “Happening” and Sensory Cinema
A new film centers on a young, unmarried woman’s attempts to secure an abortion—over a decade before France legalized the practice in 1973.
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Black Space Beyond Nation
“When did everyone become Black and not of specific nations themselves? Why did being Black mean not belonging to a place?”
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“Beowulf”: A Horror Show
Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of “Beowulf” forces us to think about what we need to be true about the past, and our access to it.
