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Feminism
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China’s Imagined Pasts and Futures: On YouTuber Li Ziqi
She may not hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, or herd cattle in the evening; still, her over 130 videos testify to the mind-blowing breadth of her abilities.
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Fighting Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons
Even at the low-security prison that held actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, sexual violence against imprisoned women is rampant.
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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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Exorcising American Domestic Violence: “The Exorcist” in 1973 and 2023
“The Exorcist” begins by excoriating women’s liberation and its potential dangers. But it veers into a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence, unlike in any other film before.
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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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On Not Asking “Should I Insert Myself in the Text?”
“We are obliged to acknowledge what we see and how we organize what we see.”
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When Medusa Meets #MeToo
Greek mythology has long been a by-word for elitism. Is it really a good idea to use its images for contemporary gender justice?
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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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Mandy Sayer interviews Helen Garner, 1989
“We didn’t think of ourselves as hippies, we thought of ourselves as serious people with politics.”
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“We All Belong to the Same War”
Female journalists in Vietnam returned, like the soldiers, nursing wounds that their countries would refuse to acknowledge.
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Femme Fatale Talks Back: Meenu Gaur on Feminist Filmmaking
“We have to take over spaces because we are not going to be invited in.”
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Are There “Good-Enough” Feminists?
The way women practice feminism differs between Quebec and France, especially in how they welcome—or don’t—Muslim women.
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Brilliant Together: On Feminist Memoirs
Collective feminist narratives can acknowledge, to differing degrees, the stories that are missing from them.
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Desire Can Pierce Politics: Amia Srinivasan on Sex, Consent, and Feminism
“Given the long, tainted history of sex under patriarchy, maybe we need reparative norms around sex.”[none-for-homepage]
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What Does Erotica Reveal about Society? Talking with Pernilla Myrne
“I really liked Cardi B’s ‘WAP.’ It reminded me of one of the earliest poems written in history.”[none-for-homepage]
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When the Revolution Left Kate Millett Behind
What was happening in the streets of Iran—what one white feminist couldn’t see—was a revolution, looking for different freedoms than the West.
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What Would a Feminist City Look Like? Talking with Leslie Kern
“What we build and how we build influences the kinds of families and relationships that we can have or can even imagine.”[none-for-homepage]
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Ferrante Breaks the Frame
A defaced family photograph—with an ancestor cut out—reveals to Ferrante’s new protagonist how women are erased by the words and deeds of men.
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Dear Knausgaard
“There’s a passage early on in Book 2 that’s so smug, so macho (in a literary way), that’s so—ugh! I can’t explain it.”
