On the face of it, this is an easy question to answer: the oppressors. But unpacking this simple answer requires that we raise several quest...

(photo (via Flickr) by Rick Carroll ) There's an excellent post over at The F Word on this topic. I encourage everyone to read the pos...

One more, from 2009. This argument is still relevant in light of the somewhat recent controversy in the feminist blogosphere regarding Jessi...

Julian Assange, the spokesman for Wikileaks, stands accused of sexual assault in Sweden . It is well-known that U.S. officials have been scr...

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But the suggestion in a recent post by Jill at Feministe is "no". She doesn't give reasons why not in the post, but in the co...

I'm not sure whether I'd recommend reading all of it (it's a waste of time), but skimming for gems like the following might be ...

The following is adapted from Alison Stone's excellent An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy . I thought it was a particularly succinct...

The following is a letter to the editor of LRB regarding a book review by G.A. Cohen: Vol. 14 No. 12 · 25 June 1992 From E.J. Mishan Muc...

Many on the Left (e.g. Marxists, feminists, and so on) have typically wanted to claim that the configuration of power in any particular soci...

To elucidate the problem I would like to use a trivial personal experience. Time and again in interviews and questionnaires one is asked wha...

Consider for a moment how often we encounter "post-racist" and "post-feminist" ideologies. On the one hand, they acknowl...

From what I could see, there was basically no critical response to Walter Benn-Michael's most recent, confused screed against feminism a...

In the feminist blogosphere, I sometimes run across the following argument. "There isn't one, monolithic feminism. There's alwa...