Philip N. Cohen

Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change.

Styles for Him—and Her

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won

  • Philip N. Cohen

Marriage Won’t Cure Poverty

Women’s increasing independence doesn’t bode well for the traditional institution of marriage.

  • Philip N. Cohen

Don’t Trouble Yourself

Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance is scientifically dubious and blind to its racist implications.

  • Philip N. Cohen

Still a Man’s World

The myth of women’s ascendance.

  • Philip N. Cohen
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