Care Ethics

A sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.

Piepzna-Samarasinha turns disabled survival, grief, mutual aid, and imagination in the COVID era into a political account of disabled futures.

Thirty years after 'The Feminine Mystique,' Betty Friedan challenges another powerful societal myth: the 'mystique of age.' She attacks the 'medical model of decline' and argues that old age is not a pathology or loss, but a unique life stage full of vitality, growth, and self-realization.

Maryam Touzani’s intimate drama turns a Moroccan tailoring workshop into a study of marriage, queer desire, illness, craft, and forms of love that exceed possession.

When her fifteen-year-old daughter seeks an abortion in N’Djamena, Amina discovers that survival depends on a clandestine network of women whose solidarity exceeds law, stigma, and kinship.

Zainab Salbi redirects attention from war’s front line to the women who maintain daily life, survive gendered violence, and are then excluded from formal peace negotiations.