Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Winter 2024
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The Irrepressible Strength of Peng Shuai
By telling her story, tennis champion Peng Shuai revealed how a violent power structure hides its violence, and the perverse way in which it drags in its victims.
The Political Philosophy of Care
In Reckoning, Deva Woodly makes a case for radical Black feminist pragmatism, a philosophy “that takes lessons from many twentieth-century ideologies and forges them into a political ethic for our times.”
Feminists on All Sides
Desire is shaped by social assumptions and prejudices, Amia Srinivasan argues in The Right to Sex. So what does one do about it?
Free Abortion Across Borders
Following Mexico’s Supreme Court ruling to decriminalize abortion, feminists in the country continue to help people access care. Their work can serve as a model for U.S. activists navigating the limits of state health services.
When Title IX Is Not Enough
Student experiments in DIY justice point to the shortcomings of the current Title IX system in confronting sexual harm on campuses.
Beyond the Nuclear Family
We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.
The Feminist Struggle for Time to Care
The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
The Family Lottery
Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
The Fight to Redefine Safety in Texas
Even as their budgets have climbed upward, police departments have deprived sexual assault units of proportional funding for decades. Today, advocates in Texas are trying to transform the state’s approach to sexual violence.
After Homosexuality
Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex, arrives just in time to help dissuade us of the idea that we have reached the end of gay history.
A Woman Is Afraid
Fear and rage can be an entry point into the rejection of violence against women but not the termination or sum of our collaborations.
The Murder of a Witch
In Fernanda Melchor’s novel Hurricane Season, women are agents in their own lives, but we also see where the fear of such agency can lead.
Know Your Enemy: Suburban Woman, with Dorothy Fortenberry
Dorothy Fortenberry, playwright and writer on The Handmaid’s Tale, talks about gender and politics, the work women do, the importance of institutions, the #Resistance, and more.
