Short Takes - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism examines current books about gender, feminism, and sexuality that have wide-ranging impact and reach (for better or worse!). These short commentaries from leading feminist public intellectuals and activists are not traditional book reviews but instead ponder broader questions of reach and resonance: Why this? Why now? And what does this say about the state of the feminist zeitgeist? Short Takes appears only on the Signs website.

Recent Short Takes

Short Takes: Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention

Short Takes: Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches

Short Takes: Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie’s Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Short Takes: Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex

Short Takes: Anita Hill’s Believing

Short Takes: Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism

Short Takes: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Still Mad

Short Takes: Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay’s Controlling Women

Short Takes: Anita Diamant’s Period. End of Sentence.

Short Takes: Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Short Takes: Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre

Short Takes: Kate Manne’s Entitled

Short Takes: Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex

Short Takes: Mona Eltahawy’s The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Short Takes: Linda Hirshman’s Reckoning

Short Takes: Rachel Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises

Short Takes: Stephanie Land’s Maid

Short Takes: Charlene A. Carruthers’s Unapologetic

Short Takes: Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her

Bernice Yeung’s In a Day’s Work

Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage

Zoe Quinn’s Crash Override

Hillary Clinton’s What Happened

Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances

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