Anita Hill’s groundbreaking testimony at the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave women new language for coping with age-old problems. But it didn’t make the problems go away.
What was lost during the endless battles over abortion, Katha Pollitt writes in her new book, was not only the right to abortion, but a larger feminist claim for sexual freedom, economic equality and social independence.
Leonard Cohen's music was like "cluster bombs," Liel Leibovitz writes. "They dropped fast, penetrated deeply, and set off a series of ongoing explosions that resonated long after they were first heard."
This is the story of one working mother who suddenly discovers she can no longer be a superwoman But what's needed is a political and economic context in which working mothers can understand their situation.
Do the socially progressive ideals that jump-started 20th-century reform movements have lessons relevant to the concerns of 21st-century America? A new book makes a strong case that they do.
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