Gender & Sexuality

The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

  • Michael Bronski

The Problem of Punishment

Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?

  • Judith Levine

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat

The End of Gender

Eileen Myles’s celebrity shouldn’t eclipse her skill as a poet.

  • erica kaufman

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

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A Mutant Gene in Language

D. A. Powell interviewed by Tadeusz Dąbrowski

  • D. A. Powell
  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz

I, Your Perfect Muse

Karen Lepri interviews Dawn Lundy Martin

  • Karen Lepri

The Spectacle of Transformation

The literal and metaphorical shapeshifting of the female body.

  • Marcela Sulak

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won’t Forget Twice

The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.

  • Terese Svoboda

The Invisibility of Black Women

Black women too often go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

  • Christopher Lebron

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine

Campus Rape Rules Are About Punishment, Not Sex

Yes-means-yes will not encourage good sex. It will not discourage good sex. It is irrelevant to good sex.

  • Judith Levine

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

It’s an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Grandparents Today

Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Our Panics, Ourselves

Richard Beck’s new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s.

  • Rebecca Onion

The Passion of Ellen Willis

On the feminist essayist, journalist, and music critic who championed women’s liberation.

  • Judith Levine

How Should a Friendship Be?

On the reissue of Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk.

  • Maggie Doherty

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert

For female travel writers, it’s a risk.

  • Jessa Crispin

In Same-Sex Marriage Case, a Contest over History

History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.

  • Nancy F. Cott

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

  • Judith Levine

Same-Sex Marriage Yes, Adultery No?

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  • Claude S. Fischer
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