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
Category: Gender & Sexuality
NYUP/Q 002: Podcast with Mary Gray, author of Out in the Country
October 16, 2009
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 (Intersections:… 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
PW: Cruising with the Left to a War in Utopia
October 5, 2009
Reviews of two of our biggest fall titles are in the latest Publishers Weekly. The Left at War by Michael Bérubé. Fresh off the 2008 election and anticipating an ascendancy… READ MORE
Video: The Social Anxiety of Babysitting
September 29, 2009
Author Miriam Forman-Brunell talks on the Brian Lehrer Show about the history of babysitting in America (also the topic of her book).
Talking about Sex with South African Women
September 28, 2009
On September 17th and 18th, Jeanne Flavin, author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America and 2009 Fulbright Award recipient, led all-day workshops with 67… READ MORE
Lolita, psycho nanny or the girl next door?
September 17, 2009
A beautiful co-ed and her friend take a baby-sitting job at a creepy old mansion only to discover that there is no baby and that they have become trapped in… READ MORE
