Author: Morgan Eminhizer

Elizabeth Reis’ Bodies in Doubt follows the thread of how intersectional bodies have been treated from the 1920s, through the 1940s and 1950s, all the way...

The sections we read of White Women, Black Men describe the marriage of a women known as “Irish Nell” and a man named Charles in 1681 and the poison...

The beginning discussion of the sexualization, objectification, and discrimination against Asian Americans is an interesting and still pertinent one, particular...

“It is … about the ways young people use elements of subcultures to create individual and collective identities, and then how they use those identit...

The reading includes a very important definition of sex work on page three: “Sex workers are laborers who earn money to perform sexual services or who pro...

Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Cleves details the marriage-in-all-but-law (from the front cover) of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the early 1800s in the Nort...

Clare Sears in Arresting Dress details the arrests and coverage of cross-dressing in 19th century San Francisco. She talks about not only people who, in today&#...

Angry White Men was an interesting read; Kimmel does a good job of framing the anger in a way that you can understand where it’s coming from and, indeed, ...

I really like the ideas that Adichie poses to her friend in this (my paraphrased list of them is below). All of them make sense to me in raising a daughter to b...