Gender & Sexuality

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

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  The Women Who Worked for the Women Who Work

  "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

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Law

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  Sanctuary: Jeanette Winterson Saved My Life

  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

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

• My Year of Sarah Schulman

  It would be easy to enjoy "The Cosmopolitans" even if you had never heard the name Sarah Schulman before.

  Hugh RyanMar 20, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Love’s Inequality

  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

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Sexual Ableism

  Fighting sexual ableism doesn't mean ignoring abuse or exonerating Anna Stubblefield.

  David M. PerryFeb 25, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Unconscious Is the Last Activist

  For human sexuality, there is no normative sexuality.

  Cassandra SeltmanFeb 8, 2016

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Spectacular Designs

  "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

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • SF

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  History’s Dick Jokes: On Melville and Hawthorne

  The issue, then, is whether serious scholars writing about famous authors — Melville and Hawthorne — can reasonably deign to take dick jokes as evidence.

  Jordan Alexander SteinDec 15, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Of Militarization and Miniskirts: Sovereignty and Sexuality in Urban Uganda

  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

  • Around the World

  • Gender & Sexuality

• The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher

  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 freedoms.

  Jacqui ShineDec 13, 2015

  • Education

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  “Room” Is the “Crash” of Feminism

  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

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  South African Feminism, Lady Gaga, and the Flight Toward “Queer Utopia”

  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

  • Around the World

  • Gender & Sexuality