This paper is an attempt to historicize Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Apostle talks delivered from 1923 to 1925 within the social and political context of the time. In his talks, Ramsey discusses socialism, psychoanalysis, and British women's movement. Ramsey's views on these three intellectual...

As the rates of incarceration continue to rise, women are increasingly subject to draconian criminal justice and child welfare policies that frequently result in the loss of their parental rights. The intersection of an increasingly carceral state and federally imposed timelines for achieving...

Tracy Thomas’s new book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, provides extensive support for the claim that Stanton was “the intellectual giant of the [women’s rights] movement.” In this eminently readable yet deeply substantive work, Professor Thomas argues...

Rezension: Der erste Themenschwerpunkt dieses Readers umreisst in vier Beiträgen die Bedeutung von unterschiedlichen Einflussfaktoren bzw. Ereignissen für die Lebensläufe von Frauen verschiedener Geburtsjahrgänge und unter verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen (hier: BRD und...