Nation Topics - Gender and Sexuality | The Nation

Here’s why you should make a major gift to an abortion fund.

Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise.

Rush Limbaugh's anti-contraception tirade targeted a single woman. Would he have had done the same if Sandra Fluke had been married?

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

How, exactly, did she turn a relentless right-wing assault into a source of renewed political power for Planned Parenthood?

Bad things happen when laws to protect fetuses are turned against the women who carry them.

Women dominate growing sectors like retail and home healthcare—but the jobs there are grueling and the wages are low.

Why are we still surprised by Foster Friess, Darrell Issa and Rick Santorum's misogyny?

Catholic hospitals net billions in government aid. They should not be able to deny their employees contraceptive coverage.

Let's find a way to honor relationships that does not rely on buying stuff.