Tag: Gender
In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right
Stephanie Herold, University of California, San Francisco and Gretchen Sisson, University of California, San Francisco
According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror...
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...
Why it’s important to see women as capable … of terrible...
Jessica Trisko Darden, American University School of International Service and Izabela Steflja, Tulane University
Born in 1593, Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman...
Why gender reveals have spiraled out of control
Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago
Over Labor Day weekend, two expectant parents didn’t get the viral hit they had hoped for.
During a gender reveal party...
What the Falwell saga tells us about evangelicals and gender roles
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University
Jerry Falwell Jr. may well be wishing that a photo with his underwear showing and his arm around the waist...
The white supremacist origins of modern marriage advice
Jane Ward, University of California, Riverside
When I was conducting research for my new book on the destructive aspects of modern heterosexual relationships, I started...
Watch more TV to understand the backlash against the women in...
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
Joe Biden’s promise to name a woman running mate has prompted familiar debates about gender and power.
Are these potential...
EXPLORING NATURE
A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what...
Ted Powers, University of California, Davis
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success...
