women

Interviews

A Place for Women

Françoise Debats & Maïté Debats & Marik Geurts & Aurélie Nat & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 January 2025

For over 40 years, a feminist association called Apiaf, based in Toulouse in southwestern France, has been working...

From the Field

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2024

The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...

Essays

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Alban Jacquemart & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2023

For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back...

Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023

At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...

From the Field

Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 November 2022

In the farming world, many women’s groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the...

From the Field

Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor

Nora Komposch - 8 December 2020

Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups. However,...

Debates

Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement

Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan - 5 March 2019

How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...

Essays

Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast

Brendan Murtagh - 19 December 2018

Is Lefebvre’s right to the city capable of extending the abstract meaning of formal “rights” to practical...

From the Field

Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles

Elsa Devienne & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 July 2018

Can beaches reveal the tensions that run through society at a given moment in time? Here, Elsa Devienne shows how...

Debates

How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women

C. Ray Borck - 16 May 2017

Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary...

A Place for Women

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Where are the Women Architects?

Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor

Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement

Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast

Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles

How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women

Series

Featured

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Looking Inward, Across the Border

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

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Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism

One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

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