gender 
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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.
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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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