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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.