Nation Topics - Gender and Sexuality | The Nation

ABC’s hit show, created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington, is a truly original political soap opera.

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

As the US withdrawal looms, women’s rights advocates plan to carry on their fierce, lonely fight.

The Helms Amendment bans the use of US foreign aid for all abortion care, including for victims of sexual assault. This International Women's Day, it's time to remember their plight.

Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.

Socially conservative American Catholics and evangelicals who have led a decades-long campaign against the rights of women in the United States are now gearing up for a season of battles on the bigger global stage.

The Sundance-to-Oscar pipeline has been great for independent film directors—at least the male ones.

The last century—and the next—of women’s struggle for justice.

If the Catholic Church is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.

She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?