Watching Women Want
...[/lr] To watch elite female athletes is to watch women not give a shit when they look ugly I’ve been watching a lot of the Women’s World Cup, with...
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
...her here. We talked about what hair length has to do with sexuality, navigating the line between showing interest in women and objectifying them, and why bisexuals are terrible dressers....
Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism
...of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970-1990” in Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry, eds. Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (2009), pp. 205-31. Margaret Rossiter, Women Scientists...
Reform School
...they have put enough distance between themselves and their compulsory education that the particular ways in which it sucks are hard for them to recall. At 20, education reformer Nikhil...
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...opposite poles of a ne’er-the-twain-shall-meet binary. Of the show’s four sections, two were devoted to individual women artists, Lesley Schiff and Barbara T. Smith , while a third area of...
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...only the latest in a stereotype-rich line of women botanists and poisoners from mythology, detective stories, comics, and science fiction. Modern stories, including comics, are slowly letting women scientists be...
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
...and citations of the work should be indicative of merit. Our continued belief in this meritocracy has very real outcomes for women in science; without change to this system, efforts...
Model Behavior
...home. The markers of psychological health among young women at that time were long hair, pretty dresses, shopping, and makeup. The middle-aged, ponderously paunched male psychiatrists who ran the ward...
Diseases Of Virgins And Spinsters: The Gynephobic History Of Chlorosis And Hysteria
...hysteria as an ungendered state of uncontrollable mania. But as we grapple with more women in the public eye, the sexist history of the word has come again to the...
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
...but above all, in the vast majority, the women who make up the “inactive” and “dependent” population. There are 21,754,000 persons in Italy who “don’t work,” of which 5,586,000 are...
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
...well as a convent at Barking , have found abundant styli, the main tool of students, suggesting that there was robust scribal activity or education that included both women and...
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...of the unusually gender-balanced community but wholly atypical of the rest of the country at a time when less than 40 percent of bachelor’s degrees were conferred to women ....
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...that occurs more often for women than for men. This kind of gender bias is incredibly common. Another profile of this sort, a 2013 New York Times obituary, praised rocket...
Belles Lettres
...anything involving them: “It is not an accident that all women who write for Salon are either hot, or formerly hot,” wrote a commenter on a piece I penned there...