Žižek’s Trans/gender Trouble
Che Gossett responds to Slavoj Žižek’s essay “The Sexual Is Political,” published in "The Philosophical Salon."
Che Gossett responds to Slavoj Žižek’s essay “The Sexual Is Political,” published in "The Philosophical Salon."
Che GossettSep 13, 2016
Neil J. Young examines the role of Phyllis Schlafly in modeling the ecumenical potential of the Religious Right.
Neil J. YoungSep 7, 2016
Ellen Wayland-Smith on Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting."
Ellen Wayland-SmithSep 7, 2016
An essay on pioneering children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom.
Kelly BlewettAug 28, 2016
Peggy Orenstein’s new book "Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape" realistically describes teenage sexuality in America today.
Ava PennerAug 27, 2016
Historically, many Indonesian sexual and gender minorities have lived with a mix of tolerance and prejudice.
Kyle KnightAug 11, 2016
Barrie Jean Borich on Christine Crosby's "A Body, Undone".
Barrie Jean BorichJul 31, 2016
Rivka Galchen offers a study of a baby and of babies, of culture, and of vulnerability.
Lucy IvesJul 6, 2016
Alice Bolin on dating, social media, emotional labor, and Beyoncé.
Alice BolinJun 19, 2016
"Because of Sex" by Gillian Thomas pays tribute to the women who fought for respect and equality in the workplace.
Laurie L. LevensonApr 27, 2016
Novelist SJ Sindu tells how Jeanette Winterson's work pulled her outside of her skin and allowed her to see a future in which she was happy.
SJ SinduApr 20, 2016
It would be easy to enjoy "The Cosmopolitans" even if you had never heard the name Sarah Schulman before.
Hugh RyanMar 20, 2016
The logic of marriage equality carries with it a damaged history of racial and sexual exclusion that the marriage movement ignores at its peril.
Will ClarkMar 7, 2016
Fighting sexual ableism doesn't mean ignoring abuse or exonerating Anna Stubblefield.
David M. PerryFeb 25, 2016
For human sexuality, there is no normative sexuality.
Cassandra B. SeltmanFeb 8, 2016
nbsp; In this conversation taped at a recent LARB Luminary Dinner, Mexican American novelist and pioneer writer of gay literature John Rechy...
Tom LutzFeb 8, 2016
"The Feminine Future" draws attention to turn-of-the-century female sci-fi writers, who have been overlooked and under-recognized for their role.
Robert KilpatrickJan 9, 2016
The issue, then, is whether serious scholars writing about famous authors — Melville and Hawthorne — can reasonably deign to take dick jokes as...
Jordan Alexander SteinDec 15, 2015
How do we make sense of the ways in which Ugandan women's bodies and nonconforming sexualities are subject to violence and even death?
Anneeth Kaur HundleDec 14, 2015
Richard Beck argues that day care ritual abuse trials of the 1980s were a vengeful response to a changing social order poised to grant women new...
Jacqui ShineDec 13, 2015
The crisis of criticism is in what no longer gets written, in what never gets written in the first place. Part of LARB's No Crisis series.
Evan Calder WilliamsDec 6, 2015
Just as "Crash" was a racist exercise in trying to exorcise racism, "Room" is a misogynistic exploration of the suffering misogyny causes women.
Sarah BlackwoodNov 4, 2015
As a fundamental human desire, the power to imagine new worlds that explode existing ones through gender performance and symbolism is universal.
Desiree LewisSep 28, 2015
Any sex manual worth its salt is an instrument of liberation.
Charlie Jane AndersSep 25, 2015