A new study shows that boys can shun and ostracize with the best of them. We’ll have to drop our “mean girls” bias to better understand how they do it.
Marriage isn’t the happiness elixir America wants it to be. If anything, it simply distracts us from persisting economic and social injustices that undermine all types of relationships.
A new study reveals something decidedly vintage—but encourages us to think about gender in a new, and more nuanced, way.
Black men are stereotyped as violent, while black women are rendered invisible. Here's why the gendering of black lives matters.
By outing rape accusers, the organization is poisoning the dialogue on campus sexual assault.
A lot of men just don't read fiction, and if they do, structural misogyny drives them away from the genre.
How what was once standard footwear for 16th-century Persian horsemen became "fashion’s most provocative accessory."
Both the NFL and the U.S. military cultivate and reward a form of hyper-violent masculinity. The consequences of doing so have never been more obvious.
What makes it so hard for some men to question their own assumptions and so easy for them to act boldly and brutally when faced with closed doors?
Or, more specifically, what's wrong with taking a steroid, while you're pregnant, to try to increase the odds that your female fetus will someday grow up to be a straight woman who gives you grandchildren, and not a lesbian daughter more interested in puppies?
By intentionally taking a step back from a career she worked hard to start, Alice Dreger estimates she has cost her family $750,000. Was it worth it?
Many of us probably get our core gender identities as much from our biological origins as we do from our gender educations.
Feminist scholars aren’t yet liberated from restrictive clothing norms, but at least they think about why they’re wearing what they’re wearing.
Low-income women, having been deceived by various people and institutions, are often justified in their lack of trust. And it’s making their lives even more difficult.
The families of individuals born with socially challenging bodies don't see them as they're portrayed in the medical literature.