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Deborah Jordan Brooks’s Double Whammy: He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender...
A round of applause for Deborah Jordan Brooks: the celebrated Princeton University Press author has scooped up not one, but two awards for her latest book, He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do...
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An interview with Nancy Woloch, author of A Class by Herself
Nancy Woloch’s new book, A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers 1890s-1990s, looks at the historical influence of protective legislation for American women workers, which served as both...
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An interview with Nancy Malkiel on the struggle for coeducation
At the end of the 1960s, a change swept elite institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom: In a remarkably brief span of time, a large number of traditional, conservative, highly...
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Rogers Brubaker on understanding “transracial”
Mainstream society has grown increasingly accepting of various ways of reimagining gender. But what about someone who identities as a different race? Is the concept of “ancestry” losing its authority?...
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The Great Mother—Jackets throughout the years
Goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds: the maternal has been represented throughout history as both nurturing and fearsome, a primordial image...
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Amazons in all Shapes, Sizes, and Colors: What the Wonder Woman Movie Got Right
by Adrienne Mayor Were Amazons—and their real-life counterparts in antiquity—really as diverse as they appear in Wonder Woman? Wonder Woman opens with a breathtaking panorama of Themiscyra, the...
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Heather Widdows on Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal
The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today’s visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge...
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Carolyn Dever: Birth of a Queer Parent
This article was originally published by Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. By virtue of their youth, trans and queer kids offer something new. Coming out today is less exclusively a...
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