Invisible Immigrants: What Will Immigration Reform Mean for Migrant Women?
Patricia thought she had crossed the border to a land where she could finally earn a good living. She ended up in one of the worst places to be a woman. As a migrant farmworker, she was brutalized and raped … {…}
Women’s Rights at Risk
A combination of factors in recent years has contributed to a fall in the status and material well-being of Chinese women relative to men. {…}
Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in?
In her time at Facebook, Losse saw the ideas behind Lean In take root. The book’s goals become legible when understood to be as informed by Silicon Valley business tactics as by feminism. What exactly are we leaning into? {…}
Demanding a Voice, Enduring Silence: Lessons from a Brazilian Women’s Movement
In the movement and in their town, Ivone and Vania learned firsthand the pain that comes from silence. They didn’t want to damage a movement that protected other women from this pain by demanding a space in the movement for themselves. {…}
Opportunity Costs: The True Price of Internships
A “flexible” corporation requires flexible workers, and as the labor market has shifted, so have the conditions placed on its participants. Flexibility doesn’t just manifest itself in global economic trends. It has now become a central part of the office worker’s performance. {…}
The Personal Is Political: That’s the Challenge: Roe v. Wade and a Black Nationalist Womanist Writer
I drew the line at publicly aligning myself with “the abortion issue,” Roe v. Wade, and the institutional white feminists popularly associated with the ruling. Doing so seemed like socio-political suicide in my highly segregated, decidedly African American slice of Philadelphia community life. {…}
Caring on Stolen Time: A Nursing Home Diary
I work in a place of death. People come here to die, and my co-workers and I care for them as they make their journeys. Sometimes these transitions take years or months. Other times, they take weeks or some short … {…}
The Only Woman in the Room: Beate Sirota Gordon, 1923-2012
Beate Sirota Gordon secured her place in Japanese history practically by virtue of being “the only woman in the room.” That room was the ballroom of the Daiichi Building in occupied Tokyo where the American Occupation’s Government Section cobbled together … {…}
Girl Geeks and Boy Kings
Facebook was, in its early days, powered by women—or rather, by photographs of women, and by the unceasing clicks of men and of women seeking out photos of women. {…}
Trickle-Down Feminism
While we debate the travails of some of the world’s most privileged women, most women are up against the wall. And yet for much of mainstream feminist discourse, it’s as if the economy hasn’t shifted, or as if there’s nothing about it worth examining from the standpoint of gender. {…}
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Traversing the U.S. Food System: An Interview with Tracie McMillan· May 22, 2013 ·
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Tocqueville in China· May 22, 2013 ·
