Margaret A. Smith (KSC) and Joseph B. Berger (UMass): Women's Ways of Drinking: College Women, High-Risk Alcohol Use, and Negative Consequences. Lindsay Palmer (UC-Riverside): Gender as the Next Top Model of Global Consumer-Citizenship. From World History Connected, a special issue on women and world history. From Gender Forum, a special issue on eccentricity and gender. Christina Hoff Sommers on equal pay day reality check: The claim that American women as a group face systemic wage discrimination is groundless. Toril Moi on Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (and more and more). Little Grrrls Lost: Angry, anti-capitalist punk girl bands power the economy. Revolution, Girl-Style — Shhh: Riot grrrl moves out of the streets and into the library. More on Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music by Marisa Meltzer. Ready or not, Girl Comics is out. A review of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggle of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law. A review of Ariel Gore's Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness (and more). Sex and the single black woman: How the mass incarceration of black men hurts black women. Lisa Belkin on what her mother’s new life can teach us about the modern wife. Ursula Le Guin won the Hugo award with a thought experiment in sexual politics, The Left Hand of Darkness, but was she guilty of succumbing to sexism herself? A review of I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler. The case for open borders: Scott Locklin on foreign replacements for American women. The birth-control pill afforded us great freedom but also the anxiety that comes along with having so much control over procreation. A review of The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It by MG Durham.
