The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated less by Phyllis Schlafly than by an inward-looking failure to listen. Are we now in a moment when potential movement allies at last listen to one another?
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge is the author of Why We Lost the ERA (1986), a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the recipient of the 2018 Skytte Prize in Political Science.
How Did Feminism Get to Be
JM: Why do people keep making the mistake of thinking that feminism is white? African-American women have historically supported the movement in greater numbers than white women have. BS: Black feminism is very much alive among the activists I know. But its organizations are not visible in mainstream politics. It faces resistance in the African-American […]
Feminism and Democracy
Models drawn from women’s experience and feminist thought now put one of the most enduring themes of democratic theory—and hottest topics of current controversy—into a different light (and a different voice).


