A few years ago there was a conference in Minneapolis on “Feminism and Rhetoric.” I went as a doctrinaire, whiny feminist. The focus of my rant was directed at younger feminist theorists who were ...

Blogger Kendall (Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists) indicts mainstream feminism for focusing on “debates over last names, body hair, and the best way to be a CEO” rather than the basic survival of ...

Attorney and journalist Zakaria (Veil) makes a lucid and persuasive argument that feminism must address its “problematic genealogies” of whiteness. She notes that British suffragists refused to ...

Today author Rafia Zakaria’s third book, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption will hit the shelves. As the title suggests, the Pakistani-American author takes a critical approach to a genre of ...

Kamala Harris appears for the first time as the vice president elect on Nov. 7 in Wilmington, Del. Her white suit nodded to feminist traditions. Rafia Zakaria reexamines those traditions and calls for ...

Beginning in my late teens and for many years later, I would have called myself a feminist. This was partly due to my passionately left-wing friends, and in part due to the effect of reading ...

Today’s guest blogger is Margot D. Weiss, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. She is the author of 2012 Lambda Award finalist Techniques of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's a rich canon of feminist literature, with readable nonfiction picks like "Feminism is for Everyone" by Bell Hooks and beloved modern ...

Suparna portrays Death in this adaptation of Manto's Khol Do The anthology then pivots towards everyday realities with Gaddi, ...