A Political and Literary Forum
Two recent books about Mormon women highlight the success of the church in redefining itself as a modern liberal religion. But to become that, the Latter-day Saints dramatically reworked both their theology and history.
Peter Coviello
Balancing work-life pressures is often considered the holy grail, but men can still opt out of these policies. To move the needle on gender inequality, the state needs to take more coercive action.
Gina Schouten
In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.
Samuel Clowes Huneke
A gay liberation reading list.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
Linda Hirshman’s new book "Reckoning" poses a false dichotomy between two kinds of feminism: those fighting for sexual liberation and those fighting for equality. We don’t have to give up one for the sake of the other.
Judith Levine
The press has crowned Buttigieg the inheritor of Stonewall’s legacy, but this doesn’t square with what we know of Stonewall activists and the world they hoped to create.
Micki McElya
The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.
Nara Milanich
—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.
Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?
Joseph J. Fischel
“I was a teenager back then, pregnant and desperate. Too terrified to make the midnight trip to the back alley.”
Matt Lord, Boston Review
A gay golden age in East Germany reveals that Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and that gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.
Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.
Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong
Andrea Dworkin is remembered for saying that all sex is rape—even though she never said that. A new collection reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation of “nasty women.”
Jeremy Lybarger
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