Gender & Sexuality

What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us About Medical Abuse

New Zealand’s response to medical misconduct should be a model for the rest of the world.

  • Carl Elliott

#ThemToo

To fight sexual harassment in the workplace, we must learn from the history of women in the labor movement.

  • Judith Levine

In the Name of Victims

Looking beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.

  • Kristin Bumiller

An Empire unto Himself

When it comes to sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein is old-school. But Trump has changed the rules of the game.

  • Bonnie Honig

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

  • Judith Levine

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

  • Bonnie Honig

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The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Not All Mothers

The female body is not, as Ariel Levy claims, the ultimate equalizer.

  • Judith Levine

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

  • Judith Levine

#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism

Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical poster boy for the alt-right—until he wasn’t.

  • Daniel Penny

Feeling Paranoid

Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference

  • Vivian Gornick

Hillary Clinton and the Unqualified Right to Abortion

She is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

  • Judith Levine

Queer in Rural America

Many LGBT Americans live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

  • Hugh Ryan

Introduction to Reading Other Women

Literature can be a primary engine of dialogue and empathy, but it—or rather, the reading public—is often complicit in the silencing of global women of color.

  • Rafia Zakaria

Transparents

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

  • Judith Levine

Pink and Blue

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Queers Against Hate

Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.

  • Michael Bronski

Misogyny Is a Moralistic Garb

Misogyny is prone to burn the bodies of less privileged women, who serve as effigies.

  • Kate Manne

Feminism and the Left

In the ’70s, feminists felt bereft even of support from those on the radical left.

  • Vivian Gornick

Maintaining Hierarchy

Misogyny is entangled with the general wish to dominate others.

  • Tali Mendelberg

Easy Cases

Clinton supporters have cynically used accusations of misogyny.

  • Doug Henwood

Misogyny In Action

Victims of misogyny may not have violated gender norms.

  • Susan J. Brison

Sexed Bodies

Patriarchy objects to the subversion of the gendered division of labor.

  • Amber A’Lee Frost

Graver Crimes

We must look beyond misogynist jabs at elite women.

  • Imani Perry
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