How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Arguments in the Dobbs case have privileged the concerns of affluent, professional women – hardly the Mississippians whose lives will be affected by the state's draconian abortion bans. The abortion rights movement needs to return to its roots in racial and economic justice. 

Before the Pussy Hats: Stitching Together the Recent Feminist Movement

by Rachel F. Seidman

Today's feminist movement has a history. They rely on networks, relationships, and lessons learned from decades of movement building.

Gloria Steinem, the Women’s Movement and a Big Question

by Bruce Chadwick

Gloria, A Life, the new play by Emily Mann about women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem leaves a big, big question.

When American Suffragists Tried to ‘Wear the Pants’

by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Starting in the 1850s, proponents of the movement for women’s rights traded their long dresses for bloomers—and paid a heavy social price for it.