A Boom for Whom?: The Camming Industry and the Covid Crisis
April 21, 2020
—Angela Jones
More people at home and online does not necessarily translate into profits for those in the online sex work industry.
Category: Gender & Sexuality
MeToo And Mass Incarceration | Jill McCorkel | TEDxVillanovaU
April 9, 2020
Watch this TEDx event with NYU Press author, Dr. Jill A. McCorkel. Dr. McCorkel is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University and founder of the Philadelphia Justice… READ MORE
An interview with scholar Tim Dean: “We need a Greta Thunberg of sex education!”
January 16, 2020
—Tim Dean interviewed by Sarah E. Bode
Tim Dean discusses the future of sex education, implications of barebacking in a new decade, and porn representations
Queering Tango
January 14, 2020
—Kathy Davis
Queer tango activism belongs to a new kind of cultural politics which celebrates embodied difference, making intersectionality and inclusion its centrepiece.
Welcome to Raunch Culture, USA
December 11, 2019
—Bernadette C. Barton
What does it mean for American culture writ large, when Netflix goes “viral” after its Twitter account asks followers, “What’s something you can say during sex but also when you manage a brand twitter account?”
Pregnancy and Power: An Excerpt
August 14, 2019
In an excerpt from the revised edition of Pregnancy and Power, Rickie Solinger explores the development of birth control after World War II and its effects on gender roles.
Capt. Marvel and the Cultural Exhaustion of Higher, Further, Faster
May 7, 2019
—Suzanne Scott
Captain Marvel as the latest show of just how exhausting (and toxic) female representation in superhero media can be
Books to read during Transgender Awareness Week
November 14, 2018
A selection of books for Transgender Awareness Week (November 12 – 19) and Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20).