Gender

Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

The erotic lit-sensation is nothing new, but a collection of classic archetypes about gender and sex.

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After a Generation of Extremism, Phyllis Schlafly Still a Leading General in the War on Women

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Why Women (and Men) Get "Baby Fever"

By Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

‘We Don’t Go to Work to Be Touched’: Sexual Harassment in the Warehouse

By Kari Lydersen / In These Times

No, Bill O'Reilly, Glee Will Not Make Your Kid Transgender. And So What if It Does?

By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

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Men Step Up to Support Women's Rights and Fight Violence ... Stars and Regular Guys Say They Are Ready to Show Up

Top General's Unbelievably Idiotic Comment About Rape in the Middle of Military Rape Epidemic

The Growing Cost of Having Kids Is Tipping More Women Towards Ambivalence about Motherhood

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Gender

Act Like a Lady? 7 Romantic Comedies Stuck in the 1950s

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

What We Still Get Wrong About Women and Work

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Why Support a Religion That Shames You? Pro-Choice Religious Group Offers Alternative

Carole Joffe / RH Reality Check

The Future of Sex? 5 Trends That May Completely Transform Our Sex Lives

Emily Empel / AlterNet

Women, Sex and S&M: Mainstream Media Totally Wrong About Female Desire -- Again

Shira Tarrant / AlterNet

10 Wildly Depressing Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Sarah Jane Glynn, Audrey Powers / Center for American Progress

Housework is Real Work: Selma James on the Decades-Long Fight for Wages for Housework

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Conservatives' Losing Bet on Birth Control: History Suggests They Might've Woken a Sleeping Giant

Patti Miller / RH Reality Check

How Organized Labor Helped Win Marriage Equality in Maryland and Washington--And What We Can Learn

James Cersonsky / AlterNet

Mitt Romney's Plan to Woo Female Voters: Pretend Women Are Very Stupid

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

Meet ALEC's Equally Despicable Anti-Choice Cousin -- AUL

Sarah Seltzer, Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

5 Guidelines that Can Prevent Sexist Reporting on Women in Politics

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Heroine With a Thousand Faces: The Rise of the Female Savior

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

No Women Allowed? It's Way Past Time to Desegregate Augusta

Ellen Snortland / Ms. Blog

Conservative 'Culture of Bullying' Keeps LGBTQ Youth From Feeling Safe

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred

Allison McCarthy / AlterNet

Fighting for Indigenous Rights Over Corporate Greed in the Niger Delta

Beverly Bell / Other Worlds

The Root of the Conservative War on Contraception Comes From a Deep-seated Anxiety

Joan Walsh / Salon

A Photographer's Mission to Show That Breast Cancer Is More Than Pink Ribbons

Amy DePaul / AlterNet

5 Ways Virginia May Be the Worst State in the Nation

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Why Women Aren't Taking Over Congress After All

Kathleen Schafer / AlterNet

7 Ways Citizens Are Using Humor and Creativity to Protest Injustice

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

How My Four-Year-Old Son Came Out to Me: As Straight

Heather Aimee O'Neill / Salon

3 Ways Women Workers are Fighting Discrimination, Wage Theft, and Abuse on the Job

Jenny Brown / Labor Notes

Dharun Ravi, Tyler Clementi and the Hard Work of Truly Stopping Bullies

Rinku Sen / ColorLines

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