OBOS, first published in 1970 as Women and Their Bodies, A Course, was one of the central texts of the…
Fight over the technological future of motherhood
feminism
Being mother/being God
In Jewish theology, an aura of heresy still clings to the metaphor of God as mother.
Thealogy or pathology? Reflections from South India
Does attributing motherhood to divinity do anything to undermine patriarchy? The answer, at least from where I sit, is no.
A women’s march without God (the Father)
Despite the increasing feminist readings of religion, the broader women’s movement frequently overlooks religion, and the result is often an…
On impasse and hypocrisy
Bouteldja’s book is a takedown of white supremacy in its cultural, economic, and political forms. Yet the white supremacy that…
A conversation between Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott
As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights,…
“Strange bedfellows” and the reproduction of civilization
While the theoretical engagements and arguments both books provide are not limited to the question of women’s rights and feminism…
Volatile signs: Feminism, secularism, political economy
What, then, does a feminist critique of secularism and its imperial geopolitics look like? What are the terms in which…
On In the Name of Women’s Rights
Femonationalism is the term I introduce to describe both how nationalist right-wing parties exploit feminist ideas within Islamophobic campaigns, and…
“Keep your money, I got my own”
There is something profoundly counterintuitive about a vision of the world reveling in cash and also raising political consciousness. But…