gender

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2023
  

  The Right to Dress However You Want

  by Kate Redburn

  New anti-transgender laws should prompt a legal response, but they also require a fundamental recognition: laws prescribing gendered dress codes infringe on everyone's freedom of expression. 

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• 5/7/2023
  

  Let Us Now Praise R. DeSantis

  by Marc Stein

  "I can’t believe it’s taken this long to have a political leader take a stand against gender and sexuality!"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2023
  

  Authors Call for a Rethink of Birth and Motherhood

  Peggy O'Donnell Heffington makes an assertive argument that the United States has a long history of official involvement in motherhood, from making reproduction near-compulsory for white women on one side of the color line to eugenics and sterilization on the other. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/27/2023
  

  Gender-Affirming Care Has a Long History, and Has Affected Non-Trans People Too

  by G. Samantha Rosenthal

  Medical intervention to make people's bodies conform to their assigned place in the gender binary has a long history; it has been controversial principally when the same treatments have been used by transgender people.

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• SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
  3/28/2023
  

  Gladys Bentley: Gender Outlaw

  by Cookie Woolner

  Gladys Bentley was one of the most popular speakeasy performers in prohibition-era New York, and used the performance category of "drag king" – women playing on stereotypes of masculinity – to be herself. 

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• SOURCE: Parapraxis
  2/6/2023
  

  Deconstructing "The Child"

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Since the Victorian era, Anglo-American conceptions of childhood have worked ideologically to place children at risk of harm through the justifying idea of love, and hide the reality that only a tiny percentage of young people experience youth as protected, secure, and nurtured. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2022
  

  Is Messi the Avatar of a Post-Macho Argentina?

  by Brenda Elsey

  Lionel Messi's tenure at the top of the soccer world has coincided with an upsurge of feminism in Argentina and its sports culture, changes Messi has quietly supported. 

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• SOURCE: ArcDigital
  12/6/2022
  

  Getting History Right Means Paying Attention to Pronouns

  by Lora Burnett

  The pronouns of history are "they, them and theirs," not "we, us and ours." Reactionaries want to dissolve the difference students need to understand the past critically. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/11/2022
  

  Empathy in the Archive: Care and Disdain for Wet Nursing Mothers

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  "Just like today, women’s decisions in the past about how to feed their babies were shaped by personal preference, to be sure, but the possibilities available are bounded by technological innovations, shifting medical advice, and social, cultural, and economic pressures and practices."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/28/2022
  

  Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz are Wrong about the Weakness of "Woke" Militaries

  by Phillips Payson O’Brien

  It turns out that hypermasculinity, ruthlesness and reflexive brutality are liabilities in modern warfare. Ukraine is exhibit A. 

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• 7/31/2021
  

  Interview: Joyce Berkman on the Value of History and the Historian's Mindset

  by Erik Moshe

  “It’s much better to develop one’s mental toolbox, one’s skills, rather than necessarily master huge bodies of knowledge.”

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/24/2022
  

  Historians Documenting the Lives of Transgender People

  Historians like Jules Gill-Peterson argues that the history of transgender people is often hiding in plain sight, and contains as many moments of joy as of discrimination or misunderstanding. 

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• How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX

  by Laura Mogulescu

  A curator and her team chose to center the work of activists who pushed to determine the scope and meaning of Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination in education throughout the law's 50-year history. Their exhibit is now open at the New-York Historical Society.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/20/2022
  

  Tucker Carlson Heralds Yet Another "Crisis of Masculinity"

  by Mona Charen

  Tucker Carlson's recent examination of testicular tanning as a boost to manliness shows the need for societies to support pathways to male expression that don't lead to violence or painful sunburns. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/5/2022
  

  "Father Knows Best": Anti-LGBTQ Legislation and the Patriarchy

  by Judith Levine

  The elision of children’s interests and parents’ rights is not just bad grammar, however. It is an expression of conservative “pro-family” ideology, which posits the family as an indivisible unit where everyone’s interests are unanimous.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/22/2022
  

  Does Zelensky's Image Upend Stereotypes about Jewish Masculinity?

  by Miriam Eve Mora

  The emergence of Ukraine's Jewish president as an exemplar of wartime valor challenges longstanding stereotypes about Jewish men. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/3/2022
  

  Hating Motherhood

  by Judith Levine

  Feminist thought that has questioned "the inexorable tie between mothers and children" and imagined women's lives without motherhood have been the "demon texts" of the movement; 

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• SOURCE: Global Sport Matters
  2/22/2022
  

  Building a Fitness Culture with Inclusion and Creativity?

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  What will it take for the culture of fitness and bodily health to draw in people with disabilities and push out narrow normative ideas of the ideal body? 

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• SOURCE: Notches
  3/3/2022
  

  Elizabeth Reis on "Bodies in Doubt," Her History of Intersex in America

  "People born with bodily differences that fall outside the bounds of “normal” have suffered tremendously, as physicians have tried to “fix” their bodies and their psyches to fit into a narrow conception of acceptability."

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• 2/13/2022
  

  The Anti-Valentine: "Dear John" in Military Culture

  by Susan Carruthers

  The cultural phenomenon of the "Dear John" letter illustrates how wartime has created occasion for the policing of gendered norms of faithfulness and forbearance, as well as a script for breaking them.