Irigaray and Contemporary Feminist Politics
The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important...
Witches and ‘Welfare Queens’: The Construction of Women as Threats in the Anti-Abortion Movement
While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century....
The Virtuous Image: Femininity and Portraiture on the Internet
Images of bodies impact young people, especially young girls and women. The normative implications of those images—what a body ought to look like and...
Gender Changes: Genderfluidity and Trans Possibilities
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that he always...
On the Continuing Necessity of Psychoanalysis for Feminist Philosophy
We live in an era in which “gender” has become a political football, in which the broadening legitimacy of same-sex marriage, as well as...
Children’s Mental Health, Institutional Gaslighting, and Mother-Blame
There is a class action lawsuit against Iowa over failure to provide legally-required and medically necessary mental health services for Medicaid-eligible children. As a...
Simone de Beauvoir and “Women’s Work”
1. Crisis of Reproduction
In the short film, Loin du 16e (Far from the 16th), Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas evocatively portray what we might identify...
Gender Together: Identity, Community, and the Politics of Sincerity
Around 11:55 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2022—just moments before midnight on National Transgender Day of Remembrance—someone walked into Club Q, a queer nightclub...
The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women
Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...
What’s In a Name? Rethinking CSW
On September 23, 2022 the APA hosted the first of three currently-planned panels on “The Status of ‘Women’ in the Committee on the Status...