Feature The Great Stink Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
Feature Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Lurve You? Or Loathe You? Highlight Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
Feature Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
Maternity Clothes for Women Who Hate Maternity Clothes Highlight A close, personal look at the evolution of the maternity clothing industry.
Reclaiming Our Rage Highlight Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
Feature You Are What You Hear Feature Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
Feature Every Woman Her Own Bodyguard Feature Before women got the right to vote, they learned jiu-jitsu and boxing to defend themselves on the streets
Feature This is How a Woman is Erased From Her Job Feature After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
Feature Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now Feature Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
Feature The Consent of the (Un)governed Feature “Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism Highlight The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Feature Assertiveness Training Feature Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Multi-Level Marketing’s Feminine Mystique: A Reading List Reading List The commodification of female friendship began in the suburban living room. Today, it’s booming online.
The Examination of a Playboy Bunny Commentary When Gloria Steinem applied for a job as a Bunny in 1963, she was told she first had to see a doctor.
Gloria Allred’s Personal Crusade Highlight First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Literary Legend and Cat Blogger Highlight Ursula K. Le Guin may no longer publish fiction, but that hasn’t stopped her from writing.
Feature I Was a 9-Year-Old Playboy Bunny Feature After longing to be a sex-symbol as a child, Shannon Lell grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List Commentary The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List Reading List A guided reading list on feminism, fandom, and fidelity for Buffy enthusiasts.
Serena Williams on Returning to Tennis and Embracing ‘Power’ Highlight Williams plans to defend her Australian Open title just three months after giving birth.
Manspreading Writ Large: Rebecca Solnit on Space Highlight In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?
Exile in Guyville Highlight Liz Phair and Elizabeth Wurtzel discuss the sexism they each are seeing everywhere.
(Re)Merchandising NASA as a Feminist Act Highlight “I took the NASA shirts from the ‘boys’ section from where they were prominently displayed, and put them little kid eye level next to tank tops in the ‘girls’ section 20 feet away.”
“That sort of thing doesn’t happen in America.” Commentary Tasneem Raja recalls her own female genital mutilation, which took “place in the bedroom of a family acquaintance in New Jersey in the late ’80s.”
“Texas is Gilead and Indiana is Gilead” Highlight The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic case of “be careful what you wish for” for conservative women.
