Kerry Howley

This Wall Street Journal article on Hillary Clinton and the anti-feminist backlash feels truer to me than almost anything I’ve seen written about the gender politics of this election:
Katherine Putnam, president of Package Machinery Co., a West Springfield, Mass., equipment manufacturer, recalls that at a lunch she attended recently, a group of male chief executives […]

In retrospect, this was inevitable:
Sadly, egg donation has less to do with altruism and more to do with the exploitation of women–particularly young women and often poor women who are usually facing large debts or just trying to make ends meet.
In fact, we contend that human egg harvesting is the newest form of human trafficking.
That’s […]

Betsey Stevenson tags modern marriage “hedonic marriage,”  the family having morphed from a “forum for shared production” to one of shared consumption. This is useful and obviously correct; increasingly, modern partnership is about sharing in a self-indulgent, not self-abnegating sense. We watch The Wire together because our emotional reactions register more deeply that way, not […]

I’m not in the habit of praising Caitlin Flanagan. Her paeans to housewifery are supposed to make me want to work less and bake more; instead, they make me want to bury my face in a stack of Linda Hirshman essays. I thought her attack on Hillary Clinton as misogynistic as anything written about the […]