Nation Topics - Gender and Sexuality | The Nation

Straight culture teaches its children that sex is either of the jungle or the picket fence.

Two-thirds of immigrants to America are women and children. But current immigration policy and past reform proposals are, as the author calls it, "sexclusionary."

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

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.