Gender and Sexuality

Missing from Healthcare Bills: Coverage for Reproductive Health Missing from Healthcare Bills: Coverage for Reproductive Health

Health reform promises support for comprehensive care. That promise plainly does not extend to women who depend on public funds and seek abortions.

Sep 25, 2009 / Editorial / Sylvia Law

Healthcare Reform–at the Price of Women’s Health? Healthcare Reform–at the Price of Women’s Health?

If Republicans don't have much hope of derailing healthcare reform, they still have a shot at seriously limiting women's access to affordable reproductive healthcare.

Sep 24, 2009 / Feature / Sharon Lerner

Stop the Sex Scare in Sports Stop the Sex Scare in Sports

The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.

Sep 14, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf

Factoring People Into Climate Change Factoring People Into Climate Change

More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.

Sep 14, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette

Sexual Healing Sexual Healing

"Female sexual dysfunction" is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.

Sep 10, 2009 / Editorial / JoAnn Wypijewski

Shotgun Adoption Shotgun Adoption

Christian agencies lavish support services on pregnant women--if they give up their babies.

Aug 26, 2009 / Feature / Kathryn Joyce

Sex-Testing Victim Semenya Stands Tall Sex-Testing Victim Semenya Stands Tall

The ongoing obsession in the West over Caster Semenya's gender only serves to highlight the understanding and acceptance shown her in South Africa.

Aug 26, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin

Caster Semenya: The Idiocy of Sex Testing Caster Semenya: The Idiocy of Sex Testing

South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"--it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.

Aug 21, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf

A Gross Unfairness: The Workings of the Straight State A Gross Unfairness: The Workings of the Straight State

Scrutinizing the machinery of the "straight state."

Jul 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steven Epstein

Bruno: Offensive, Funny or Just Shocking? Bruno: Offensive, Funny or Just Shocking?

The Nation's Richard Kim and others discuss the admittedly provocative antics of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest creation.

Jul 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv

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