Anti-abortion feminism: How is this even a thing?

Victoria Browne ~ RP 2.13 (October 2022), pp. 27–42 ~ Article

On 24th June 2022, anti-abortion activists across the US celebrated as the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, among them some self-described ‘feminists’. For a long time now, the anti-abortion movement has been declaring itself ‘pro-woman’ as much as pro-foetus, presenting abortion as a harm to women that they are coerced into or ultimately […]

Inside families

Reivew of Laura Briggs, How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

Sophie Jones ~ RP 2.03 (December 2018), pp. 98–101 ~ Review

Laura Briggs, How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017). 304 pp., £24.95 hb., £20.00 pb., 978 0 52028 191 2 hb., 978 0 52029 994 8 pb. The shift to neoliberalism is rarely narrated from the vantage point of the household, but it […]

Against goody two-shoes feminism

Reivew of Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures

Victoria Browne ~ RP 2.02 (June 2018), pp. 93–96 ~ Review

Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). 280pp., £74.95 hb., £24.95 pb., £24.95 eb., 978 0 23117 640 8 hb., 978 0 23117 641 5 pb., 978 0 23154 455 9 eb. A recurring theme within feminist philosophy has been the association of a feminine maternal principle […]

The Meaning of Political Ecology

Tim Hayward ~ RP 066 (Spring 1994) ~ Article

The Meaning of Political Ecology Tim Hayward ‘Political ecology’ is an expression which has become quite familiar in recent years, but does not appear to have acquired a clear and settled meaning. * Evidently it is used to point up some kind of connection between politics, or the political, and ecology, yet the project of […]

The Artificial Womb: Patriarchal Bone or Technological Blessing?

Carl Hedman ~ RP 056 (Autumn 1990), pp. 15–24 ~ Article

The Artificial Womb Patriarchal Bone or Technological Blessing? Carl Hedman Every area of technological innovation has an idea that can serve as a kind of ‘Rorschach Test’ for revealing some of our deepest intuitions.l Consider, e.g., the idea of a fully automated factory. This idea can be used to bring out a person’s intuitions as […]

Sexmat, revisited

Stella Sandford ~ RP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007) ~ Article

Sexmat, revisited Stella sandford As a genre of intellectual production, ‘feminist theory’ emerged in the 1980s, hot on the heels of the criticisms of the white Eurocentrism and heterosexism of classic second-wave writing. The conjunction of these criticisms and the growing influence of various philosophical and psychoanalytic theoretical elements developed, in one strand of feminist […]