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Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism is an open-access, online feature of Signs that examines books that have shaped popular conversations about feminist issues. Short Takes examine a book that has had wide-ranging impact and reach (for better or worse!) and solicit short commentaries from leading feminist public intellectuals and activists. Rather than traditional book reviews, commentators are asked to ponder broader questions of reach and resonance: Why this? Why now? And what does this say about the state of the feminist zeitgeist? Read more about the initiative in Suzanna Danuta Walters's introduction to the inaugural Short Takes on Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist.

Recent Short Takes


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

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

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

Pro by Katha Pollitt

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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Special thanks go to Kim LeMoon for her vision and meticulous research; to Colin Fontaine for his custom graphic design work; and to Michael Magoulias and Jennifer Ringblom at the University of Chicago Press for their support in our online endeavors.

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