Class and Gender

UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington introduces 'reactionary feminism,' critiquing modern feminism as serving only elite professional women. She argues technological progress commodifies women's bodies and reproductive abilities, calling for a fundamental reassessment of what 'progress' means for most women.

Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.

Nicole Constable centers Filipina migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, showing how recruitment, employment, live-in rules, resistance, and negotiation shape care labor in an Asian global city.

Bridget Anderson analyzes how migrant domestic labor is organized by employers, states, and border regimes, exposing the race, class, gender, and citizenship politics behind household work.

Lila Avilés's debut centers a hotel room attendant in Mexico City, using minimalist drama to show hidden cleaning labor, fantasies of mobility, and women's isolation.

This Brazilian drama uses the conflict between a live-in housekeeper, her daughter, and an employer's family to expose domestic labor, separated motherhood, class boundaries, and women's dignity.