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Returning to Maidan

Sophie Pinkham ▪ Fall 2016

In the early days, the Maidan protests had been something like a people’s national liberation festival. But by 2014, with war erupting in the east, euphoria and solidarity had been replaced by grief and anger.

Capitalism’s Crisis of Care

Sarah Leonard and Nancy Fraser ▪ Fall 2016

In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.

America’s Other Election

Gary Gerstle ▪ Fall 2016

Rolling back Republican domination in the states will not be easy. But it is a battle that must be joined.

China’s Feminist Five

Leta Hong Fincher ▪ Fall 2016

China’s younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and families are the foundation of the country’s political stability.

Rethinking Populism

John B. Judis ▪ Fall 2016

Donald Trump’s candidacy may have peaked. But, from the United States to Britain and beyond, the discontent fueling the far right won’t fade so quickly. Can a new, left-wing populism seize on it—and rebuild democracy in the process?

Gender Trouble in Poland

Ann Snitow and Katheryn Detwiler ▪ Fall 2016

Poland’s proposed abortion ban is part of a broader attack on women by the right-wing PiS government, which has sought to banish the word “gender” itself from the country’s vocabulary. But Polish feminists and their allies are fighting back.

A Feminism for Tomorrow: Introduction

Kaavya Asoka and Sarah Leonard ▪ Fall 2016

What are feminists thinking and doing today? We cast an eye to movements in the United States and abroad to help us imagine—and strategize—a more pluralist, and radical, feminism.

Introducing our Fall special section.

Not All the Single Ladies

Moira Weigel ▪ Fall 2016

The optimism of Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies is encouraging, but the book’s blindspots illuminate the limitations of contemporary liberal feminism.

Freedom from Abstraction

Andrew Seal ▪ Fall 2016

The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea by Jeffrey A. Engel Oxford University Press, 2015, 248 pp. The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great by Harvey …

Love and Death in Revolution Square

Vadim Nikitin ▪ Fall 2016

“Suffering justifies our hard and bitter life,” writes Svetlana Alexievich of Soviet life. “For us, pain is an art.”

The Breadwinner-Homemaker Trap

Suzanne Kahn ▪ Fall 2016

Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict by Heather Boushey Harvard University Press, 2016, 360 pp. What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet Harvard University Press, 2016, 400 pp. [contentblock id=3 img=html.png] To illustrate the tensions between work …