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 As those rights are repealed, the fight against conservative reaction must return to the streets.
Mad Men brilliantly shows the everyday cruelties of the old order, but insists that those who challenged them were fools.
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they'll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
Annie Leibovitz's new exhibit gestures at liberal feminism's conflicts with race and class without really confronting them.
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.
Family, nostalgia and the failure of formal-equality feminism.
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.
We hear throughout mainstream culture that we are permanently doomed to a squalid future. Artists should insist otherwise.
Hillary Clinton isn't a champion of women's rights. She's the embodiment of corporate feminism.
How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies.
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.
In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.
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.
Hillary Clinton's record cuts against the claim that she's an ardent champion of women's rights.
Liz Truss, who has just become the next UK prime minister, calls herself a “Destiny’s Child feminist." She is the latest reactionary hoping that her gender will distract the public from what is an appallingly right-wing agenda.
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.
Before disgraced New York governor Andrew Cuomo was outed as a sexist boss, he was an innovator in the faux feminist space, having a fake political party — the Women’s Equality Party — for the sole purpose of destroying his political enemies.
Labor organizer Ella Reeve Bloor died on this day in 1951. Her life stands as a signpost for all radicals.
On Lana Lokteff, the women of the alt-right, and the feminization of fascism.
