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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, Politics

Same-Sex Marriage Yes, Adultery No?

Trends in American Opinion

Claude S. Fischer

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Looking Back on the Struggle for Marriage Equality

Today, marriage was affirmed as a constitutional right for same-sex couples in the United States.

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Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Elder Consent: The New Sex Panic?

One report on purported elder abuse describes victims as dependent captives “in highly sexualized environments.”

Judith Levine

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Seduction of Normalcy

On Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.

Diana Arterian

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Sally Mann’s Romantic Ideal

“Dear Sir, I don’t like the way you crossed me out.”

Judith Levine

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Styles for Him—and Her

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won.

Philip N. Cohen

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

The Indiana Backlash

Ever since the Indiana legislature passed its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, lawmakers there have been on the defensive.

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality

Wounded Women

The assumption of female vulnerability threatens to invigorate the sexist evils it aims to combat.

Jessa Crispin

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Still Missing: Etan Patz—and Others

During the exhaustive search for Etan, black children were disappearing in Atlanta.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Finding Public Relief

One of the major changes in American life about 100-120 years ago was the domestication of public spaces.

Claude S. Fischer

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Pat Lynch's Deadly Machismo

In this drama of race and sexuality, the NYPD could learn something from Mayor de Blasio.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

Sex Is Serious

When it comes to consent, feminists and Christians agree.

Elizabeth Bruenig

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