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feminism

Wollstonecraft, Austen, and femininity

Jon D. Schaff   |  May 30, 2024

Did Jane Austen read Mary Wollstonecraft? If so, what did she learn?

Is “girl boss feminism” on the decline?

John Fea   |  September 26, 2023

Here is Liza Featherstone at Jacobin: This elitist vision of feminism has been around for more than one hundred years. In the early twentieth century Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian socialist organizer and writer who would later become the only woman in […]

Randall Balmer: “Don’t look for pronouns on my email signature”

John Fea   |  May 31, 2023

The Dartmouth College historian of American religion weighs in on the pronouns debate. Here is a taste of Balmer’s piece at the Santa Fe New Mexican: It’s all the rage these days, especially in academic circles, to specify pronouns — […]

Has the “Women’s Movement Been Disastrous?”

John Fea   |  June 13, 2022

1994. Firing Line. Watch: There is a lot to talk about here, most of which I am ill-equipped to comment on with any degree of expertise. But I will make three comments: Historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is clearly the smartest person […]

Pro-life feminism

John Fea   |  November 29, 2021

Here is Tish Harrison Warren at The New York Times: We need to broaden the tent of feminism. If, in order to be a feminist, one cannot simply be against the oppression of women but also must affirm abortion or […]