The relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at the American Anthropological Association, may be one indicator of the consolidation of the field. However, only a few decades earlier, significant political, institutional, and intellectual struggles were waged to make this possible. A relationship between feminism and anthropology was not a natural alliance but was forged through contested debates such as those over the universality of women’s oppression (Ortner 1972), the incompatibility of a relativism and feminism (Strathern 1988), and through the “sex wars” in the United States (Rubin 2011). Feminist anthropologists have also pioneered new possibilities for representation in the ethnographic genre (Visweswaran 1994). In this moment of intensifying attacks on feminist thought globally, on women’s and trans people’s reproductive rights and in universities, it is crucial for anthropology to reflect on feminist histories of the discipline and what they can tell us about reproducing knowledge in the present moment.^[1]This collection entered production in early 2025, during the period between the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2024, his inauguration for a second term, and subsequent steps taken by his administration to restrict women’s and trans people’s rights in profoundly troubling ways. The many ways that the women in our roundtable struggled against misogynistic academic institutions, and their ability to link intersectional feminist political struggles to their work in the classroom, may offer inspiration in dark times (see also hooks 1994).