The World’s Toughest Job
“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.
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Elite Feminists Ran Cover for Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo’s downfall has discredited a host of liberal feminist activists who quietly advised the governor on his response to sexual harassment accusations.
She Said Misses an Opportunity to Expose Harvey Weinstein’s Elite Enablers
She Said, the new film about the exposure of Harvey Weinstein, keeps its focus on the disgraced movie producer and poster villain for #MeToo — but misses a chance to expose the “girl bosses” who protected him for years.
The Reproductive Rights Movement Has Radical Roots
Abortion rights in the US were won in the 1970s thanks to militant feminist groups that built campaigns from the ground up. As those rights are repealed, the fight against conservative reaction must return to the streets.
Argentina’s Life-or-Death Women’s Movement
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they'll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
Art and Cynicism
We hear throughout mainstream culture that we are permanently doomed to a squalid future. Artists should insist otherwise.
The All-Women MSNBC Debate Panel Wasn’t a Feminist Victory — It Was a Right-Wing Disaster
This week’s all-women-moderated presidential debate is being lauded as a feminist victory in the press. But it was hardly that. The candidates were just fed inane questions meant to defend the benevolence of US empire and marginalize political positions deemed too far left.
Brutal Either/Ors: An Interview with Drucilla Cornell
Family, nostalgia and the failure of formal-equality feminism.
Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment
Hillary Clinton isn't a champion of women's rights. She's the embodiment of corporate feminism.
Tear the Prison Down
Annie Leibovitz's new exhibit gestures at liberal feminism's conflicts with race and class without really confronting them.
Stop Writing Communist Women Out of History
Liberal feminists often paint the fight for women’s liberation in Eastern Europe as a matter of “catching up with the West.” But presenting feminism as new to the region silences the battles waged by communist women after 1945 — and their victories over conservatives in both the Church and their own parties.
The Art of Spin
How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies.
No, the European Commission Isn’t Fighting the Patriarchy
Both the last two German defense ministers have been women, and one of them is about to become European Commission president. But Ursula von der Leyen’s rise through the ranks has nothing to do with feminism.
How Teachers Won the Right to Get Pregnant
In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.
Girlboss Politics Won’t Beat the Right
Facing a close race in New York’s gubernatorial contest, Democrats are doubling down on elite feminism. But at a time when many voters feel beleaguered by crime and inflation, you-go-girl pep rallies won’t stem the rightward trend.
With Diabolical Lies, Pop Culture Discourse Breaks Left
A new female-coded pop culture podcast called Diabolical Lies answers the age-old question: Is it possible to have opinions about both Chappell Roan and Friedrich Engels?
The Real Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton's record cuts against the claim that she's an ardent champion of women's rights.
“She Battled the Capitalists Tooth and Nail”
Labor organizer Ella Reeve Bloor died on this day in 1951. Her life stands as a signpost for all radicals.
When Soviet Women Won the Right to Abortion (For the Second Time)
After a liberalization period following the Russian Revolution, the Stalin-era Soviet Union drastically restricted women’s right to abortion. But in the 1950s Soviet women won free and legal terminations — achieving the right to choose before almost all of their sisters in the West.