Polls Don’t Kill Gun Control, People Do
December 14, 2009
Do NRA members want more gun control or do they fear President Obama will try to ban gun sales? Yes. Those are the seemingly contradictory findings from a new poll… READ MORE
Category: Gender & Sexuality
56 Writers Select the Best LGBT Books of 2009
December 8, 2009
A great list on the blog Band of Thebes includes one of our authors, Mary Gray (Out in the Country) selecting one of our books, When Gay People Get Married… READ MORE
Weight-loss industry masks its economic interests with bogus health concerns
November 24, 2009
An op-ed in the San Diego Union Tribune by Esther Rothblum, co-editor of The Fat Studies Reader. Fat studies scholars in the health and medical sciences have examined the economic… READ MORE
Jezebel Does Girl Zines
November 13, 2009
An American Prospect review of Girl Zines got some attention from America’s favorite women and culture blog, Jezebel. Since the 1990s, zines have played a crucial role in bringing awareness… READ MORE
A Very Brief History of Love (& Sex) Between Women
November 9, 2009
By Leila Rupp This week, at the polls in Maine, voters took away the right of same-sex couples to marry. The same thing, of course, already happened in California. When… READ MORE
NYUP/Q 002: Podcast with Mary Gray, author of Out in the Country
October 16, 2009
[podcast]https://www.fromthesquare.org/podcasts/MaryGrayPodcast.mp3[/podcast] In this episode of our podcast series, Executive Editor Ilene Kalish talks to Mary Gray, author of Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America… READ MORE
Huge LGBTQ Anthropology Award Goes to Out in the Country
October 13, 2009
The Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, SOLGA, is very pleased to announce that Mary L. Gray has been awarded the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category “Outstanding Monograph”… READ MORE
The Risks and Rewards of High Heels
October 12, 2009
From a NYTimes roundtable on Why We Love the Shoes That Hurt Us, a piece by Jennifer Scanlon, author of The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader. The Risks, the Rewards… READ MORE