Samantha Eyler is very much in love with a man called C. This is one of the main reasons she wants to have a baby with him. And one of the main reasons she doesn’t. In its cover story this week, TIME magazine pointed out that for many women, having children seems like an increasingly […]
For those of us who still describe ourselves as feminists, Susan Sarandon’s recent refusal of the title warns that, if we want people to keep listening to us, we need to focus on cooperating rather than on power struggles. “I believe in equality. The problem I’ve had with feminists is that they always insist that […]
Early feminists fought for the right to control their own fertility. Twenty-first century feminists are getting tired of having to control it for so long, says Samantha Eyler. I became an instant feminist the moment a nurse told me I was pregnant. Peeing on a pregnancy test for the second time just to be sure, […]
You thought the DOMA ruling was just a triumph for gay rights? Actually, it changes everything—for women, for parents, for workers. Even straight ones. What a happy historical coincidence. Exactly 50 years after Betty Friedan—herself no proponent of sexual openness—showed in The Feminine Mystique that gender roles in families suppress women’s personhood and potential, the […]
