Gender & Sexuality

Women and Children First

Dora Russell and the evolution of feminisim.

  • Judith Levine

The Possibility of Self-Sacrifice

When is public death meaningful? A case study of political suicide.

  • Oded Na’aman

Letting Go of Normal

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of ‘genes for X’ or a nature/nurture balance.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Trusting the Poor

Welfare policy breeds distrust, which in turn undermines outcomes. Judith A. Levine offers modest proposals for how we can reach the most disadvantaged among us.  

  • Judith A. Levine

A Moveable Court

In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

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Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

The Poetesses

An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried

  • BK Fischer

Is the Gender Revolution Over?

After decades of such astonishing change, the gender revolution appears over—before its completion.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

  • Cécile Alduy

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt

Still a Man’s World

The myth of women’s ascendance.

  • Philip N. Cohen

Femininjas

Women in Fiction Fight Back

  • Elizabeth Hand

Natural Woman

Elisabether Badinter blames “naturalism” for all-consuming motherhood, but she leaves the real culprits off the hook.

  • Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Never So Free

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

  • Alan A. Stone

An Acquired Taste

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

  • Alan A. Stone

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner

A World on Fire

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.

  • Danelle Morton

The Morning After Marriage

Should the gay community really be saying “I do”?

  • Jason Anthony

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

No Objections

What history tells us about remaking marriage

  • Nancy F. Cott

Mothers Who Care Too Much

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

  • Nancy J. Hirschmann
with responses from
  • Shannon Hayes
  • Robin West
  • Lisa Dodson
  • Melody Berger
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mona Harrington
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Anne L. Alstott

Sins of the Father

Alan Stone reviews Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.

  • Alan A. Stone

Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

  • Tess Taylor
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