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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

Class & Inequality, Gender & Sexuality

Women and Children First

Dora Russell and the evolution of feminisim.

Judith Levine

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

They Came to Bury Him

Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics

Diana Arterian

Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

The Possibility of Self-Sacrifice

When is public death meaningful? A case study of political suicide.

Oded Na’aman

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Letting Go of Normal

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of 'genes for X' or a nature/nurture balance.  

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

Claude S. Fischer

Gender & Sexuality

Belle Knox and the Identity Monster

Little attention has turned to what may be the most revealing element of her defense.

Simon Waxman

Class & Inequality, Gender & Sexuality

Trusting the Poor

Welfare policy breeds distrust, which in turn undermines outcomes. Judith A. Levine offers modest proposals for how we can reach the most disadvantaged among us.  

Judith A. Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

A Moveable Court

In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.

Pamela S. Karlan

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell

Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Poetesses

Barbara Fischer discusses gender and gendered thinking in poetry with three fellow poetesses.

BK Fischer

Gender & Sexuality

Is the Gender Revolution Over?

After decades of such astonishing change, the gender revolution appears over—before its completion.

Claude S. Fischer

Gender & Sexuality

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

Cécile Alduy

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