Posts tagged: feminism

In Tribute to Meredith Tax

Verso editor Jessie Kindig remembers socialist feminist activist and author Meredith Tax, and we reprint the 2021 introduction to Tax's classic of socialist feminist labor history, The Rising of the Women.
Feminism and Gender: Verso Student Reading

A reading list of feminist history, theory, and rage!
Empty Choices

Marian Jones on the limits of a reproductive rights movement organized around "choice" and the living legacy of the SisterSong coalition for Reproductive Justice.
Pañuelos Verdes, Acompañamiento, Solidaridad

The Global South has much to teach the Global North about fighting for reproductive justice, providing abortions to whoever needs them, regardless of the law--and about building a mass, international, feminist movement.
Sovereignty Lost

Not only has Native people’s right to parent our children been stolen from us, but so has our right to abortion—even with Roe V. Wade in effect
An Attack on Abortion is Never Just About Abortion

Jessie Kindig's introduction to We Organize to Change Everything, an urgent, freely downloadable ebook from Verso Books and Lux magazine, for a movement under siege.
Meet the French feminist behind the theory of ecofeminism

A certain revival of interest has been felt in recent years for Françoise d'Eaubonne and her theories. The dangers that she warned us of at the dawn of the 1970s—deforestation, nuclear danger, pollution, resource exhaustion—is of burning topicality.
The unknowns of sexual desire

Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.
Ewa Majewska on the success of Poland's women’s protests in 2016

How the 2016 women’s protests situated reproductive rights within the context of labor rights and class composition.
Feminist theory

Foundational Marxist critiques of feminism in the age of neoliberalism, with contemporary books on the family, sex work, and gender identity.
Revolutionary Feminisms

Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Vivian Gornick, Legacy Russell, Andrea Long Chu, Jacqueline Rose, Katherine Angel and Elizabeth Martínez.
The Forgotten Legacy of Claudia Jones: a Black Communist Radical Feminist

Ashley Roach-McFarlane recovers a portrait of a forgotten radical, and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival