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Elizabeth Reis highlighted the evolution of the medical field in “Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex.” Specifically, Reis focused on the term “int...

Martha Hodes’ White Women, Black Men captures interracial relationships in U.S history, noting specifically the toleration of these couples and changes that res...

Alexandra Polymeropoulos Asian American Sexual Politics Summary In this book, Rosalind Chou includes information relevant for understanding the lived and histor...

Amy C. Wilkins’ Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status includes studies and interviews from numerous Goth identifying individ...

Melinda Chateauvert discusses the various misconceptions regarding sex workers, such as trafficking, coercion, and drug use among other things—though it is enti...

Alexandra Polymeropoulos Charity and Sylvia Blog Post  Summary Rachel Cleves’ book Charity and Sylvia describes a beautiful lesbian relationship that spans over...

Clare Sears, author of “Arresting Dress,” began her research for the novel as a doctoral student. Sears mentions that strict adherence to gender norms was commo...

In Michael Kimmel’s novel, Angry White Men, readers are presented with two sentitments regarding male, cisgender rage—“entitlement and sense of victimization” (...

In “Dear Ijeawele: a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie beautifully articulates many contemporary issues surrounding sexism gl...