Seventeen declares that “Everyone Should Be A Feminist and Here’s Why” in the headline of a recent piece. A feminist, the article explains, is a sort of neo-Marxist, intersectional feminist fighting ...

With her 2011 book The Problem with Work, political theorist Kathi Weeks helped kickstart a theoretical renaissance of work-critical socialist feminism. Now she’s back with a new volume blending that ...

In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the ...

Sharon Smith, author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital, explains the roots of the concept of intersectionality and how it can help advance Marxist theory. MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard ...

More than 40 years after the high points of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, women not only don't have equal rights, but sexism and oppression has grown worst in a number of ...

Few questions have haunted feminist theory and the feminist movement as persistently as the deceptively simple one: What is a woman? Some have tried to answer it directly. Others have argued that the ...

If you feel tired, for God’s sake, stop … Don’t work,” a woman says to her friend in the short story “Biography of My Daughter,” written by Midwestern radical writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur. The ...

I got a laugh out of Mary Ann Curtis's letter of June 14, as I'm sure most of your readers did as well. She is railing against the Awake America movement, a group dedicated to the promotion of ...