Posts tagged: feminism

Is Sexual Desire a Biological Drive?

Are we making women's interest in sex less, well, sexual?
Defining the Patriarchal

In an excerpt from her new book, Nancy Folbre explains how patriarchy manifests in our political institutions, rights, and laws.
‘I hope feminists don’t stay polite. In this society that’s absolutely useless.’

In an interview Christine Delphy relives the formation of the MLF, the women's liberation movement in France, in 1970, and demands that the struggle continue
“Real Theory Is in What You Do and How You Do It”

Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
On the Precipice of Decision: The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Argentina

As Argentina's upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of 'political decision' for those typically excluded from politics.
Theses on the Feminist Revolution

A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics.
The History of Women's Movements in Asia and the Middle East

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.
“Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot!”

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the US, we highlight a radical speech from Susan B. Anthony on women's suffrage as one step in a greater economic revolution.
Revolutionary Feminism

Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Nina Lakhani, Andrea Long Chu, Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Leta Hong Fincher, Sophie Lewis and Elizabeth Martínez.
No Country for Women

Shigraf Zahbi reports on misogyny in Modi's India.
The Non-Sexist City

Leslie Kern asks how we can create a feminist city and what tools women can use to support each other.
Debt and the Violence of Property

Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago on on the compounding crises of personal debt, a pandemic recession, and patriarchal power