Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
213 articles
Luxemburg connects political participation to wage labor, migration and colonial exploitation, while leaving tensions over unpaid care and the measure of social contribution.
Rosa Luxemburg / 3 minsGilman revisits a rest cure that restricted writing, distinguishes fiction from autobiography and questions medical authority without offering a clinical trial.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanKollontai answers fears that organizing specifically among women divides workers, showing why an open organizational door does not itself make participation possible.
Alexandra Kollontai / 3 minsLuxemburg argues for women’s suffrage as collective power, contrasting profit-producing labor with unpaid housework and exposing class interests behind exclusion.
Rosa Luxemburg / 8 minsHiratsuka connects women's creative freedom to spiritual attention, domestic work and a shared publishing institution, without resolving the tensions between them.
Hiratsuka RaichōGoldman separates marital protection from love, showing how sexual respectability, wage labor and dependence constrain freedom within intimate relationships.
Emma GoldmanGoldman connects moral panic about trafficking to low wages, sexual double standards and police extraction, questioning what punitive rescue leaves unchanged.
Emma Goldman / 3 minsJane Addams connects milk, water, sanitation and child labor to suffrage, showing the public conditions of household life and the limits of maternal citizenship.
Jane Addams / 3 minsQiu Jin turns collective address, learning and the image of women’s hands into political agency, while linking liberation to the demands of national action.
秋瑾He-Yin Zhen asks who benefits when men grant women freedom, connecting domestic service, class and the limits of representation.
He-Yin Zhen / 9 minsSakai Toshihiko challenges women’s supposedly natural duties through domestic work, technology and collective childcare, while retaining tensions around maternal nature.
堺利彦 / 3 minsTerrell follows food, lodging, jobs and schools through Washington, exposing why money, qualifications and national promises do not secure Black women’s access to the city.
Mary Church Terrell / 3 mins