Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
52 articles
Hamza Bensouda examines how Morocco’s women’s movement built coalitions across ideological divisions and sustained pressure for family-law, constitutional, and anti-violence reform.
Hamza Bensouda / 10 minsThis Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.
UN Women & UN ESCAP / 12 minsThe Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.
The Red Nation / 6 minsWritten after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.
Carmen Geha / 11 minsThis article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.
Helen Lewis / 10 minsA regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / 10 minsThis regional legal review compares constitutional guarantees, nationality, family law, violence protections, labor, and criminal law across Arab states, making visible both reform and persistent discrimination.
UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and ESCWA / 45 minsSeven participants recount how Argentina’s green-scarf campaign turned abortion from a silenced personal risk into a mass, intergenerational demand for health, autonomy, and democracy.
Amnesty International / 7 minsActivists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka describe how rights work is sustained amid trafficking, autocracy, militarization, poverty, and gendered retaliation.
Amnesty International / 9 minsA regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / 10 minsA regional case in UN Women’s fund report follows Dalit women’s organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka as they connect land, labor, education, and political representation across borders.
UN Women Fund for Gender Equality / 8 minsThis article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.
Pankaj Mishra / 15 mins