From the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, Anna I. Corwin (NAU): Language and Gender Variance: Constructing Gender Beyond the Male/Female Binary; and Meaghan Stiman, Patricia Leavy and Ashley Garland (Stonehill): Heterosexual Female and Male Body Image and Body Concept in the Context of Attraction Ideals. Lauren Elkin on Chorus Girls: From the cabaret to the nightclub, from the theater to the ballet, women who perform in public have attracted writers and artists for as long as women have performed in public. A review of The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment by Carrie N. Baker. Betty Friedan is not responsible for all of our unhappiness. Lydia Sargent is searching for a post-sexist society. A review of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by Elaine Tyler. Historian Elaine Tyler May reveals the surprising truth: The pill changed little about American women’s sexual behavior (and more). Sexual liberation: Whose sexuality is liberated, men's or women's? Love, Actually: Caitlin Flanagan on how girls reluctantly endure the hookup culture. From The Mantle, a review of books on women. Screw happiness: Bombarded by studies about who is content and why, we forget one thing — dissatisfaction has its own rewards. Femivores in the Henhouse: Feminists debate the meaning of “chicks with chicks”. In pursuit of the goddess: How Marija Gimbutas defied the odds to restore the feminist principle. A review of Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century by Melissa Benn. A review of The Self-Employed Women's Association by Fumiko Ekuni. Have female suicide bombers become terrorism's political pin-ups? Its messages are clear about a woman's role: So why are so many women are attracted to Islam?
