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Feminism

Frozen Freedom

Frozen Freedom

Artificial Reproductive Technologies like egg freezing are on the rise. For the professional-managerial class women who can afford them, they provide an uneasy freedom that stimulates ambivalence about motherhood, paralysis about mating, and compulsion around costly procedures.

Working Mother

Working Mother

The radical pamphleteer Susannah Wright does not fit neatly into the contemporary feminist imaginary. She is a woman these feminists would like to forget: a woman who understood her class allegiances and fought for the universalism of an objective, shared reality.

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 50 Years On

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 50 Years On

In their groundbreaking pamphlet, Ehrenreich and English railed against a medical system that suppressed and sidelined women. Fifty years later, their radical anti-authoritarianism is increasingly powerless against—and sometimes even an accelerant for—the ongoing commodification of healthcare.