Tag: gender
Gendered Worlds: Our Need for Belonging and Usefulness
If we choose to befriend our many obligations—to connect with other people, to love, to serve, to create, to borrow, to lend, to repair, to celebrate, to support—instead of buying a product or a service—then we are cultivating fertile ground for a healthy form of gendered cooperation to (perhaps) re-emerge.
The Super Bowl Spectacle Sends Mixed Messages about Women
What was on display in the halftime show was not a celebration of sexuality or empowerment for women. It was an elevation of instinct.
Gender is a Social Construct
In Gender, Illich reveals the depth and scope to which capitalist modernity has unsettled family life and relations between men and women in general.
Gender Matters
In the spring of 2011, articles began popping up about a couple in Toronto who were refusing to publicly reveal the gender of their...
It’s a Boy! It’s a Girl! It’s a Technology-Enabled “Sex Party”!
How do we explain a culture that tells children that sex doesn’t matter much, that “girls can do anything boys can do,” and at the same moment is treating the sex of infants in the womb as a critical, determining fact?
The Lost Children
In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton abortion decisions. Together, they represented a serious defeat for the unalienable right to life, the constitutional system of federalism, and the principle of democracy.