gender

I was really happy to find that Kalpana Sharma, outstanding journalist from Mumbai, and author of 'Rediscovering Dharavi,' has a blog that archives her writings. Here is the link.

WPost and NYT agree this is one of the best non-fiction books of 2007

Quoted: Thomas Mallon’s novel explores the anti-gay purges of McCarthy-era Washington.

Stories like this never cease to intrigue me...

Quoted: Shouldn't there be about as many highly eligible and appealing men as there are attractive, eligible women? Here's a look at how economics and game theory can explain the shortage of available, appealing men.

Quoted: The unconscious is playing a political role this year, with evidence showing that most Americans have unconscious biases against blacks and women in executive roles.

chill for my women's studies class

Quoted: Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement

Quoted: Without an ultrasound can you predict the gender of your baby? Someone may tell you that the baby must be a boy because you are carrying low. Someone else may tell you that it must be a girl since you experienced severe morning sickness. Is there any truth to these methods, well...

This is really interesting.

Quoted: Police arrested a wife and her husband who was born a woman and underwent sex reassignment surgery 16 years ago and accused them Sunday of lying about the husband's gender to a court in eastern Pakistan.

Quoted: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House. This country is way down the list of countries electing women and, according to one study, it polarizes gender roles more than the average democracy.

A Slate writer finds out first hand what it's like to be a drag king...

Quoted: I asked my drag king buddy, Herbie Hind, if he would apply my beard makeup before I made my stage debut as a man. Herbie offered to advise me, but said I must take responsibility for my own facial hair: "It's your beard, so you should own it."