Judith Shulevitz

Ernestine Rose, Free Radical

Ernestine Rose began agitating for women’s rights a decade before Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and she mentored them both.

Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon’s NWRO

The demise of the NWRO in the mid-1970s did not signal the end of the welfare rights movement. The idea of a basic income has enjoyed a resurrection, bringing us full circle back to Johnnie Tillmon and the NWRO.

Against ‘Domestic Despotism’

It is becoming ever more evident that the market economy and the unpaid labor of love and care dovetail with each other to “keep depressed,” in Thompson and Wheeler’s excellent phrase, “the average station of women beneath that of men.”

Year One: Resistance Research

If people newly roused to political action are going to stay roused, then the Democratic Party had better pay attention and follow their lead.

Kate Millett's Family Values

Let me state it plainly: Kate Millett invented feminist literary criticism. Before her, it did not exist.