Kristen Ghodsee, an American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College, discusses women’s movements in Eastern European countries, their common socialist past, and a general history of feminism throughout the world.
Emancipatory movements must have a populist dimension. An interview with Nancy Fraser
The transatlantic critical theorist compares the political crises in the US and Europe, calling for a renewed democratic left to overcome the Trumps and Le Pens of the world.
Feminism and the refusal of work: an interview with Kathi Weeks
The Marxist feminist talks about the relationship between anti-work politics and the struggle against patriarchy.
Pussy Politics II: The oldest profession in the world
According to the common saying, prostitution is the oldest profession in the world – but it isn’t. Midwifery is.
Feminist Organising and the Women’s Strike: An Interview with Cinzia Arruzza
The Sicilian born Marxist-feminist talks about the new, global wave of women-led mobilisations and the continuing importance of class politics.
Talk Real in Rijeka: Building Coalitions of Power
We travelled to Croatia to talk to activists and scholars about how social movements and other grassroots movements can expand their political influence.
What is ‘femonationalism’?
This is the sexualisation of racism: anti-Islam feminists talk about Muslim women’s emancipation, but what does this emancipation look like? They are doing jobs that feminists don’t want to do.