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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


Angela Saini’s The Patriarchs

Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice

Nona Willis Aronowitz’s Bad Sex

Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention

Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches

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

Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex

Anita Hill’s Believing

Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Still Mad

Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay’s Controlling Women

Anita Diamant’s Period. End of Sentence.

Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre

Kate Manne’s Entitled

Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex

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

Linda Hirshman’s Reckoning

Rachel Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises

Stephanie Land’s Maid

Charlene A. Carruthers’s Unapologetic

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

Jessica Bennett’s Feminist Fight Club

Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom

Andi Zeisler’s We Were Feminists Once

Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies

Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family

Katha Pollitt’s Pro

Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist

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