Gender & Sexuality

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Need You — Baby
Dave Mandl consults “Where to Score,” a collection of classified ads culled from the pages of the “San Francisco Oracle.”
Dave MandlDec 30, 2018
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
The Hard-Earned Lessons of a Born Maverick
The highs and lows of the feminism movement, as seen through the eyes of one of its leaders.
Miriam GreenspanDec 26, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
Portrait of a Middle-Class Butch Academic
Alexis Clements reviews Esther Newton’s “My Butch Career,” a memoir of the early life and career of an important pioneer in the field of LGBTQ Studies.
Alexis ClementsDec 22, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
After the Plague of Discourse
Ronnie Scott speaks to Dion Kagan about “Positive Images,” a new work that looks at how representation of HIV/AIDS has changed in the “post-crisis” culture.
Ronnie ScottDec 19, 2018
Little Book with Big Ambitions: Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle”
Rita Indiana's "Tentacle" takes on environmental disaster, queer politics, race relations, and the legacy of empire in a brief 160 pages.
Ellen JonesDec 13, 2018
The Mixed Meanings of Missing Girls
Martha Cooley searches for the figure of the missing girl in contemporary fiction.
Martha CooleyDec 2, 2018
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
What Does Jill Soloway Want?
Meredith Maran takes a look at Jill Soloway’s new memoir, “She Wants It,” which delves into the noted director and writer’s political awakening.
Meredith MaranNov 29, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
In the Era of #MeToo, Men Don’t “Know” About Predatory Men — but Women Do
"When my safety is at stake, I rely on a more accurate knowing: the intuition born of my trauma. It is enough for me and for most women."
Libby LenkinskiNov 20, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”
"Good and Mad" uses several prisms for revealing the nuances of women’s anger in the second decade of the 21st century.
Maggie LevantovskayaNov 5, 2018
Roland Barthes and the Urgency of Nuance
Philip Sayers on the difficulty and importance of recovering Roland Barthes’s engagement of the neutral in our political moment.
Philip SayersNov 4, 2018
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."
Adam WinklerNov 2, 2018
Politics of Hate
Samuel Huneke reviews Dan Healey’s “Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi,” a look at the development of homophobia as a political strategy in Russia.
Samuel Clowes HunekeOct 26, 2018