Gender & Sexuality

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

• Srsly.

  "Texts from Jane Eyre" Ortberg’s satire matters because it is fantastically able to express women’s anger toward men: men both real, and imagined.

  Sarah MesleNov 6, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• The Art of the Essay

  Essayists on their obsessions with female celebrities.

  Jessica GrossOct 22, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

• Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee

  Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.

  Susannah LuthiOct 13, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • History

  • Nonfiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• Girl Trouble

  Is modern society inherently poisonous to its young women — or is sickness inherent to the condition of being a girl?

  Robin WassermanSep 25, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  This Shirt Won’t Change Your Life: An Interview with Sheila Heti

  Women in Clothes: Women talking to women about women’s relations to women’s clothing.

  Claire LuchetteSep 18, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Into the Wardrobe

  Fashion is a way that women speak to the world, not just a result of the way the world speaks to women.

  Sasha WisemanSep 15, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Nonfiction

• An Almost Unheard Low Note

  An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Lisa L. MooreAug 24, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• America Hates Women

  Bad Feminist brings an inclusive and modulated voice to what has been, at times, a shrill conversation.

  Erika SchickelAug 3, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• “The Hardest Work I Have Ever Done”: “Dropout Piece” by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

  Catherine WagleyJul 23, 2014

  • Art & Architecture

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  It Gets Better: The Evolution of "Queer TV"

  Rachel EdelmanJul 21, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

• Fake Places: The Work of Edie Fake

  Joshua Michael Demaree on the career of Edie Fake.

  Joshua Michael DemareeJul 17, 2014

  • Comics

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Feminism and the “50 Shades” Hangover

  Neither of these books is about "50 Shades of Grey," not really. They are about the state of women. How, they ask, is feminism working for you?

  Jessa CrispinJul 15, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality