Nation Topics - Gender and Sexuality | The Nation

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

The Supreme Court—as well as the Obama administration—upholds the right of the world’s biggest jailer to strip everyone who comes into its grasp.

If they believe that in exercising control over women's reproductive functions, they will also control women's voices, they are wrong.

Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.

The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.

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?