Gender & Sexuality

Fashioning a Way Out of Black Pain

Race in the fashion industry.

  • Alexis L. Boylan

Sexual Violence and Sexual Spectacle

A new book decries moral panics over sexual danger. But in thinking about the MeToo movement, we should not conflate real abuse with mere scandal.

  • Stephanie Sy-Quia

Four Ways to Escape a Sex Panic

In the absence of rigorous journalism about accusations of sexual wrongdoing, these strategies are essential.

  • Kevin Henderson
  • Joseph J. Fischel

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.

  • Judith Levine
  • Erica R. Meiners

Moving History Along

Quotas and parity cannot make women equal to men.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo

The Electability Trap

The dangers behind focusing on whether a candidate is “electable.”

  • Emily Cain

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Crafting U.S.-specific Solutions

Work is already being done to disrupt structural inequalities.

  • Kelly Dittmar

Race Matters Too

Women of color make distinctive contributions to public policy.

  • Kerry L. Haynie

The Battle for Women’s Representation Starts in Our Homes

Women need intellectual space and free time to participate in politics.

  • Dawn Langan Teele

Changing Gendered Expectations

We can’t vote our way out of gendered divisions of labor.

  • Suzanne Dovi

Persuasion, Not Quotas

Slow, incremental changes are just as important as quotas.

  • Alice Eagly

What Does It Take to Get Women Elected?

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo
with responses from
  • Alice Eagly
  • Suzanne Dovi
  • Dawn Langan Teele
  • Kerry L. Haynie
  • Kelly Dittmar
  • Emily Cain

Budgeting Diversity

How faculty retirement policies shape racial and gender diversity on campus.

  • Daniel E. Ho
  • Oluchi Mbonu
  • Anne McDonough

Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight

Forms of gender-specific violence are baked into the structure of law enforcement. Reform efforts will fail until we eliminate police discretion over women’s bodies.

  • Anne Gray Fischer

Burdens and Benefits

A recent abortion ruling asks whether abortion access laws may one day be judged on how they serve women's health.

  • Rachel Rebouché

Translation

A personal meditation on trauma, loneliness, and the paradox that gay community is often both life-giving and terribly disappointing.

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

America’s Long War on Children and Families

A new book shows how Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of child-taking by the U.S. government.

  • Paul M. Renfro

How a Conservative Legal Perspective Just Saved LGBT Rights

Gorsuch’s majority opinion tossed out the old common sense about sex, even as its logic buttressed other kinds of state control.

  • Paisley Currah

The Long Fight for LGBT Labor Equality

On the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to gay activism.

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

In the Fight for Policing Reform, LGBT Is a Threadbare Alliance

White gay men and trans women of color often have little in common.

  • Joseph J. Fischel

Our Identities, Ourselves?

Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique.

  • Mark D. Jordan

Without Women There Is No Democracy

On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.

  • Jennifer M. Piscopo
  • Shauna L. Shames

From the Editors: The Right to Be Elected

What does gender equity in a democracy look like?

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Mothering in a Pandemic

Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children.

  • Anne L. Alstott
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