From Surveillance and Society, a special issue on Gender, Sexuality and Surveillance. From the Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, a special issue on women and men. After she was raped in the Navy, Maricela Guzman survived an abusive marriage, PTSD, and an attempted suicide — now she’s fighting to make sure it won’t happen to other women. A review of Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men by Roy F. Baumeister (and more). Are we facing a genderless future? A small but growing number of people are rejecting being labeled male or female. Ann Friedman reviews The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards. Boys Don't Cry: Why developing an inner life is essential to healing men from the explosive violence bottled up within (and more). The Mother of All Grizzlies: Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done — again. Superhero or Slacker: Recent scholarship and popular journalism both suggest an unappealing future for American boys — you’re screwed. Caspar Milquetoast and the Alpha Female: It's an embarrassing time to be macho. A new study examines the relationships among individuals’ acceptance of rape myths, their negative attitudes toward rape victims, and their general intergroup dominance and sex-based oppression. A review of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (and more). Michael Thomsen on the romantic needs of the North American male: There’s something about 18 year-olds. A review of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson.
