Leah DeVun in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on The Shape of Sex
Does gender exist in the Garden of Eden? To a modern reader familiar with Christian belief, Adam and Eve may represent the very origin of binary bodies. Leah DeVun’s The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender...
View ArticleDr. Katie Gaddini on The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are...
Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women, yet more than thirty million women in the United States identify as evangelical. The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women...
View ArticleQueer Cruising Before Dating Apps Michael Rosenfeld
Ever wonder how queer people met one another in the nineteenth century, when divulging one’s sexuality could lead to scandal and even arrest? In his tell-all confessions-letters, sent to French...
View ArticleA Voice from the Past One Nineteenth-Century Queer Autobiography William A....
Before the twentieth century, it is rare to find autobiographical writings by men who were attracted to other men. In France, only eight have been identified for the era between 1845 and 1905. All were...
View ArticleTranslating a Narcissist: The Italian Invert’s Companion Nancy Erber
The Italian invert and I have a history together. I first came across his story under the title “Roman d’un inverti” in the 1980s in a hot and stuffy Paris library as I was scrolling through the...
View ArticleThe Power of Female Same-Sex Love Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang
In premodern China, descriptions of homoeroticism can be found in multiple examples of histories, poetry, fiction, and drama, but nearly all of these treat exclusively male-male relations. On female...
View ArticleTwenty Books to Read for Women’s History Month 2023
Join us in celebrating the cultural, social, and leadership contributions women have played throughout history. From their critical roles in politics and advocacy to the fight against sexual violence,...
View ArticleNarrative Activism#MeToo from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana BurkeLeigh Gilmore
Especially in its early months in 2017, #MeToo was often described as unprecedented. Social media received credit for bringing a new level of public awareness to the scale of sexual abuse and, as a...
View ArticleSusan J. Wolfson on Mary Wollstonecraft and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It was so exciting, so interesting, so educational, so sobering, so exhilarating to plan, research, and write On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Sobering because my...
View ArticleHow Women Steered Early Cancer Awareness Campaigns Elaine Schattner
In March 1914, the Woman’s Cosmopolitan Club in New York City hosted a meeting about cancer. Margaret Aldrich, a suffragist, moderated discussion during which two local experts, Dr. James Ewing, a...
View Article15 Must-Read Books for Pride Month 2023
Every June, we come together to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and carry forward the legacy of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. These 15 books both provide insight into the enduring challenges faced by...
View ArticleBen De Witte and João Nemi Neto on Translating In the Name of Desire
Let the power of desire not be underestimated, capable of moving mountains. —João Silvério Trevisan João Silvério Trevisan published his third novel, In the Name of Desire (originally Em nome do...
View ArticleKimberly D. Acquaviva on The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and...
A year and a half after she published her first book about LGBTQIA-inclusive hospice and palliative care in 2017, Kimberly D. Acquaviva learned that her wife Kathy had ovarian cancer. When they were...
View ArticleBeyond the Famous Few: Five Women Who Shaped Black History and Literature...
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk...
View ArticleLucy Diggs Slowe on Black Women, the Role of the University, and Democracy...
Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in Black women’s higher education. Her story is one of resilience, activism, and relentless determination to...
View ArticleWendy Steiner on The Beauty of Choice
In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr. and the Unfinished...
It’s International Women’s Day, and women’s rights are being rolled back all over the world, perhaps, mostly notably, in the country that hosted the first International Women’s Day in 1909—the United...
View ArticleThe Subtle Art of Messaging: How Far-Right Women Use Social Media to Shape...
“Using your baby to virtue signal alliance with a violent political movement is a new low for white women.” This is how a far-right woman influencer describes a photo of a woman holding her baby in a...
View ArticleQ&A: Giving Voice and Data to the Gender Gap in ScienceLisa M. P. Munoz
For more than twenty years, Lisa M. P. Munoz has interviewed hundreds of different scientists about their work in psychology, neuroscience, the geosciences, biotechnology, and immunology, among other...
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