Category: Gender Studies

November 18, 2011

Interview with Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin, Authors of The Lives of Transgender People

The following is an interview with Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin, authors of The Lives of Transgender People. Sunday, November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize those who have been killed because of their...

October 28, 2011

Caryl Rivers Debates Single-Sex Education with the Headmaster of an All-Boys School

We conclude our focus on The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, by following up on yesterday’s post on single-sex education. Earlier this week, in a fascinating exchange, Caryl...

October 27, 2011

Caryl Rivers on The False Promises of Single-Sex Education

As the dubious assertions regarding differences between girls and boys begins to take hold, there has bee a push for single-sex education. In an article in the Huffington Post from earlier this month, Caryl Rivers coauthor of The Truth About...

October 26, 2011

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett Dispel Myths About Girls and Boys

On their website, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, authors of The Truth About Boys and Girls: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, challenge some myths concerning the ways in which girls and boys learn: Myth: Girls’ and boys’ brains are...

October 25, 2011

Interview with Rosalind Barnett, Coauthor of The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

Earlier this year Rosalind Barnett was interview by the Boston Globe about her and Caryl Rivers’s new book The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children. The interview can also be read at on the book’s...

October 24, 2011

The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

A new biological determinism is sweeping through American society. This week we’ll be featuring The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children. Here’s the opening to the book: A new biological determinism is sweeping through American...

September 7, 2011

Interview with Lingzhen Wang, editor of Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts

The following is an interview with Lingzhen Wang, author of Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts. Question: How influenced were Chinese women directors by the sexual revolution happening in the ’70s in the Western world? Lingzhen Wang: Not that much at...

August 3, 2011

Rosalind Barnett: Taking Gender Out of the Classroom

“Claims of large gender differences are so pervasive and oft-repeated that they are assumed to be true. However, scores of peer-reviewed studies suggest that these claims are invalid. The fact that they are repeated over and over doesn’t make them...

June 27, 2011

Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey on Romance and Same-Sex Marriage

In the aftermath of New York’s gay pride parade which celebrated the recent passage of same-sex marriage, we are posting an excerpt from Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey’s Between a Man and a Woman?: Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage. In the book...

April 21, 2011

Hillary Chute and Lynda Barry

Thanks to Lynda Barry for holding up Hillary Chute’s book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. The photo was taken shortly before Hillary Chute moderated a conversation on comics with Barry and Alison Bechdel at a recent event at...

April 7, 2011

Gary Cross and "The Won't Grow Up Male"

In a feature in The Wall Street Journal , Kay Hymowitz, author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys chose five books that exemplify the contemporary phenomenon of “The Won’t Grow Up Male.” The...

December 3, 2010

Hillary L. Chute and Lynda Barry to discuss Graphic Women

Hillary L. Chute, author of the newly published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the art of the graphic novel this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Philoctetes...