Why Are We Now Talking about “Unfinished Business”? Heather Boushey The Unfinished Business of Race and Gender at Work Kimberly Freeman Brown Strengthening the Case for Policies to Support Caregiving Stephanie Coontz The Feminist Business Nancy Folbre Only the State, Not Benevolent Employers, Can Ensure Work-Family Balance Kathleen Geier Having It All Is Not a […]
Feminist Public Intellectuals Project
Jack Halberstam on Trigger Warnings
Feminist Frictions is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project. This installation of Feminist Frictions examines the concept of trigger warnings, featuring an essay by Jack Halberstam and a digital archive related to the topic. Digital Archive: Trigger Warnings This digital archive extends the themes of Halberstam’s essay to examine debates around trigger warnings and […]
Janet Halley on Affirmative Consent
Introducing Feminist Frictions Suzanna Danuta Walters, Editor in Chief I am excited to introduce a new Signs initiative: Feminist Frictions: Key Concepts and Controversies. Part of our broader open-access effort—the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which includes Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism and Ask a Feminist—Feminist Frictions features essays by prominent feminist scholars engaging a key […]
Katha Pollitt’s Pro
A Broad Argument, Narrowly Targeted Michelle Kinsey Bruns With Pro, Katha Pollitt Gives the Abortion Rights Movement Its Modern Credo Jill Filipovic The End of the Single-Issue Struggle Dani McClain Unmuddling the Muddled Middle: Pollitt’s Passionate Call to Action Eesha Pandit Let’s Talk about Sex, Not Abortion Loretta Ross Reproductive Justice 101 Rickie Solinger A […]