Gender and Sexuality

Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf: Sports Shape the Way We Understand Our World Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf: Sports Shape the Way We Understand Our World

Sports are more than just games: when we play or watch sports, we are forming the ways we look at our world and understand issues of sexism, racism, homophobia and nationalism.

Aug 8, 2011 / Press Room

Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf: Sports Shape the Way We Understand Our World Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf: Sports Shape the Way We Understand Our World

Sports are more than just games: when we play or watch sports, we are forming the ways we look at our world and understand issues of sexism, racism, homophobia and nationalism.

Aug 8, 2011 / NPR

Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn

Times columnist Frank Bruni ignores the dramatic toll the economic downturn has taken on women. 

Aug 4, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe

Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die

Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die

Sexuality education in the United States has evolved to teach everything besides sex itself.

Aug 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Anna Lekas Miller

Slide Show: 6 Ways the Media Represents Female Athletes

Slide Show: 6 Ways the Media Represents Female Athletes Slide Show: 6 Ways the Media Represents Female Athletes

Aug 1, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation

Sex Sells Sex, Not Women’s Sports Sex Sells Sex, Not Women’s Sports

So what does sell women's sports?

Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Mary Jo Kane

America’s Deepest Closet America’s Deepest Closet

Why does the sports world remain fiercely hostile to open participation by LGBT athletes?

Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Sherry Wolf

Birth Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Birth Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Birth control is lifesaving medicine. Yet the myth that it is “controversial” persists.

Jul 27, 2011 / Column / Katha Pollitt

New Ohio Bill Prohibits Late Term Abortions New Ohio Bill Prohibits Late Term Abortions

Aside from being an obvious infringement on women’s rights and privacy, the bill promotes unsafe and unhealthy medical practices, as late term abortions are typically due to ...

Jul 21, 2011 / Press Room

New Ohio Bill Prohibits Late Term Abortions New Ohio Bill Prohibits Late Term Abortions

Aside from being an obvious infringement on women's rights and privacy, the bill promotes unsafe and unhealthy medical practices, as late term abortions are typically due to health...

Jul 21, 2011 / MSNBC

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