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Gender & Sexuality, Politics

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

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Gender & Sexuality

Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

The Obligation of Self-Discovery

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Save the Equal Rights Amendment

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Julie C. Suk

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

When Quotas Come Up Short

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake

Gender & Sexuality

Pathologizing Desire

Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency. 

Jessa Crispin

Gender & Sexuality

Whose Anger Counts?

Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.

Whitney Phillips

Gender & Sexuality

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

Gender & Sexuality

Four Ways to Escape a Sex Panic

Allegations against Mayor Alex Morse sought to use a moral panic for political gain. Such manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target, though: they can set back decades of progressive politics.

Kevin Henderson, Joseph J. Fischel

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

Class & Inequality, Gender & Sexuality

Budgeting Diversity

We know that faculty retirement policies shape racial and gender diversity on campus. What universities do now in the face of COVID-19 will have long-term consequences.

Daniel E. Ho, Oluchi Mbonu, Anne McDonough

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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

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

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

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

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

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