My mom was what I would call an old-school feminist. She grew up a Jewish cisgender female in Albany, New York, during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s and ’70s. This period has primarily ...

As the website for The National Women’s History Museum notes, Betty Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women and was “one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s ...

Voltaire once described his good friend, mathematician, and physicist, Emilie du Chatalet, as “a great man, whose only fault was being a woman.” In the context of 18th century France, this was a great ...

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Feminism is a powerful movement that has been around for centuries, and it continues to shape our society today. But what exactly is feminism? In its most basic form, feminism is the belief that women ...

Hammer & Hope co-founder Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has written a new introduction for an expanded second edition of How We Get ...

Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success. By Sarah Menkedick Sarah Menkedick’s most recent book is “Ordinary Insanity: Fear ...