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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. 

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• SOURCE: Military Times
  1/25/2022
  

  Susan Carruthers on The Myths and History of the "Dear John" Letter

  The "Dear John" letter represents a convergence of the social history of the military and the culture of family, love and relationships. Historian Susan L. Carruthers explains how the term was coined and what she learned about romantic breakups in military history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/4/2021
  

  Josh Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Republican Obsession with Manliness

  Journalist Liza Featherstone argues that Senator Josh Hawley, who wrote a book on Theodore Roosevelt, is missing the irony of harkening back to TR as an exemplar of manliness: Roosevelt was plagued by the same obsessions with masculinity that the Republicans today are stoking.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/14/2021
  

  Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine

  by Dillon Carroll

  Today's concern for "deaths of despair" among white Americans isn't unprecedented; a wave of alcoholism and temperance advocacy after the Civil War highlighted the relationship between social unsettlement, substance abuse and social reformism.

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  10/6/2021
  

  Why Hollywood Can't Change a Diaper

  by Janet Golden

  While Hollywood portrayals of motherhood have adapted to incorporate single and working mothers, popular culture images of fatherhood have remained stubbornly stuck in the past. Would supports for child care and parental leave in the budget reconciliation bill help bring movie dads up to date? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/2021
  

  Do Colleges have a Guy Problem

  "The imbalance reveals a genuine shift in how men participate in education, the economy, and society. The world has changed dramatically, but the ideology of masculinity isn’t changing fast enough to keep up."

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  8/30/2021
  

  Daddy Issues

  by Bethany Moreton

  White American Christians have embraced aggressive patriarchy as access to social and economic power has become more concentrated in fewer hands. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/3/2021
  

  The Migration Crisis is a Gendered Violence Crisis

  by Laura Briggs and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

  Central American women are frequently pushed to migrate by the threat of sexual violence. American policy inflicts further gendered harm through family separation and border militarization. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/25/2021
  

  The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood: Prof. Beth Allison Barr's Historical Challenge to Evangelical Gender Roles

  “Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/4/2021
  

  Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From

  The invention of pronouns to better address gender has been part of the English language for a long time, as has moral panic about the degradation of culture and speech. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/7/2021
  

  Women Asked for an Independence Day. They Got Mother’s Day Instead

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Mother's Day was established by Woodrow Wilson to blunt demands by suffragist and feminist movements for policy changes that would make women "citizens in fact as well as in name." The burdens of domestic work experienced by women during COVID should inspire a return to these more radical proposals. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/19/2021
  

  What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today

  by Carol Dyhouse

  "Cinderella dreams an impossible dream: she isn’t a helpful role model for today’s young girls thinking about their future, and is unlikely to regain the intense hold over the female imagination that was evident in the 1950s."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/15/2021
  

  'The Making Of Biblical Womanhood' Tackles Contradictions In Religious Practice

  "In her new book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, historian Beth Allison Barr traces cultural sources of patriarchy that have all but erased women's historical importance as leaders of the faith."