The Return of Fun: BOOM! Box Comics Make Progressive Politics Entertaining
Aaron Kashtan looks at the many innovative and noteworthy comics coming out of BOOM! Box imprint....
Writing the Female Mind: On Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s “La Femme de Gilles”
Tess McNulty reviews Madeleine Bourdouxhe's "La Femme de Gilles," recently republished by Melville House....
The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovic’s “The H-Spot” and the Search for Women’s Happiness
Jill Filipovic’s latest rehearses the arguments we’ve heard before, but the stories of the women she interviews show the real power of feminist imagination....
Breaking New Ground in Women’s “Paths to Fulfillment”: A Conversation with Ruthellen Josselson
Kitty Lindsay talks to psychologist Ruthellen Josselson about her 35-year-long examination of the ways women define themselves....
Gaming Gone Queer
A new collection of essays probes how queerness intersects with the video game as an industry and an art form....
Rwandan Women Rising: A Model for a More Inclusive Democracy?
Kathleen B. Jones review “Rwandan Women Rising” and discusses it with its author, Swanee Hunt....
When Progress Ebbs: Career Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
Radha Vatsal muses on the shifting contours of social progress for women....
“Carl Broke Something”: On Carl Andre, Ana Mendieta, and the Cult of the Male Genius
Maya Gurantz reflects on Carl Andre, Ana Mendieta, and the cult of the male genius in contemporary art....
Making Motherhood into Art
Fed and cared for, Menkedick is allowed the space few women have, to sit with her pregnancy and truly grapple with its implications for her life....
Not Just Pussy Hats on the Climate March: Feminist Encounters with the Anthropocene
“Anthropocene Feminism,” a new essay collection edited by Richard Grusin, asks how feminism is reshaped by a recognition of human impact on the world....
From Sex Worker as Character to Sex Worker as Producer: A Review of Nicholas de Villier’s “Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary”
Nicholas de Villiers new book gives a fresh view on films about sex work by focusing on documentaries about sex workers, a genre that he calls “sexography.”...
Homophobes Without Homophobia
Bruno Perreau’s “Queer Theory: The French Response” illuminates the new politics of sexuality in contemporary conservative movements in France and the U.S....
