News that Senator Tammy Duckworth brought her baby to the Senate floor for a vote thrilled some and infuriated others. […]
Pornography on the Playground
When I was 19, I had a summer job supervising a playground. It was a pretty lame job. It paid […]
The Enigmatic Spinster
Judging from the number of books, blogs, news articles and interviews focused on the lives of single women, it seems […]
“A Basic Issue of Women’s Liberation”: The Feminist Campaign to Legalize Contraception in 1970s Ireland
On May 22, 1971, forty-seven members of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement (IWLM) boarded the 8am train from Dublin to […]
Women On the March
The Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere the day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president attracted […]
Gilead: An Antiporn Utopia
In a recent article for Feminist Current, Gail Dines draws parallels between two TV series currently causing a stir: Netflix’s […]
A Parable for Our Time: Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
“I know this may not seem ordinary to you right now, but over time it will be. This will become […]
You Know What? Equality Feminism is Crap
In the wake of the Women’s March, one thing is clear — we haven’t resolved a debate that has been […]
When the Man Gets You Down… Or the Power of Transnational Feminism
Over the last fifteen years, Latin America has seen the rise and fall of women in politics. A decade before […]
Dorothy Bruce Weske: Academia and Motherhood in the Mid-Twentieth Century
In 1934, in her mid-thirties and single, Dorothy Bruce defended her dissertation at Radcliffe College on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Convocations, […]
