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Feminists Against the Sexual Revolution
Was the sexual revolution a mistake? From the 1960s through today, the majority of feminists would instantly answer “no.” Easier access to contraception, the relaxation of divorce laws, the legalization of abortion, less emphasis on virginity, reduced stigma around unmarried sex—all of these have been hailed as liberating for women.
But in the past few years, an emergent strand of feminism has questioned these assumptions. “Reactionary feminism”—the name was popularized by the British writer Mary Harrington—rests on a premise that
How Should Feminists Have Sex Now?
When the activist and writer Ellen Willis published “Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution” in 1982, the preposition in her title underscored an uncomfortable truth: The sexual revolution had come and (mostly) gone and left women largely unsatisfied. On the one hand, the ’60s and ’70s had ushered in real, tangible gains. Contraception and abortion had been legalized; the stigmas surrounding casual and extramarital sex had lessened. For women, there weren’t as many punishments for daring to have sex as
Chlöe Bailey Takes Her Place Among the Hip-Hop Feminists — Cover Interview
As a teen star and half of a sister act, Chlöe Bailey charmed audiences for years. Now she’s launched a solo music career and is lending her distinctive voice to an essential story about sex, race, and Black women’s bodies.
BY: Joan Morgan
PHOTOGRAPHED BY: Micaiah Carter
On the day of our interview, Chlöe is late and sending apologies from the set of a very hush-hush series Donald Glover is directing for Amazon. Chlöe, who costars alongside Dominique Fishback and
Wie die Black Scholar-Glocke Touched Feminists Everywhere einhängt
In ihrem nächsten Buch „Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center“ definiert Hooks den Feminismus als „den Kampf zur Beendigung der sexistischen Unterdrückung“. Wenn sie die „weiße, bürgerliche, hegemoniale Dominanz feministischer Bewegungen“ kritisierte, warnte sie auch davor, solche Kritiken zu verwenden, um den Feminismus selbst „zu verwerfen, abzulehnen oder abzutun“.
In den späten 1980er Jahren erlangten Hooks in der Blütezeit einer neuen Generation von schwarzen öffentlichen Intellektuellen an Universitäten größere Bedeutung, und sie war die seltene Frau in einem Kreis, der
As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy
The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love
Anthony Comstock may be the only man in American history whose lobbying efforts yielded not only the exact federal law he wanted but the privilege of enforcing it to his liking for four decades. Given that Comstock never held elected office and that the highest appointed position he occupied in government was special agent of the Post Office, this was an extraordinary achievement—and a reminder of the ways that zealots have sometimes slipped past the sentries of American democracy to