Gender and Sexuality

Forward to the Past Forward to the Past

Most of the time I think of gay rights, women's emancipation and the decline of male dominance as irreversible historical processes, blah blah, driven as they are by powerful mat...

Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Family Values Forever Family Values Forever

In the marriage movement conservatives and centrists find a home together.

Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Judith Stacey

Same-Sexers Under Siege Same-Sexers Under Siege

The right-wing crusade to roll back gay civil rights is gathering momentum.

Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Doug Ireland

Andrew Sullivan, Overexposed Andrew Sullivan, Overexposed

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Jun 5, 2001 / Feature / Richard Kim

Abortion on Trial Abortion on Trial

When a renowned abortion doctor opened a clinic in Ocala, Florida, he was seen as a public pest. So local authorities used the courts to get rid of him.

May 31, 2001 / Feature / Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy

The Professor of Desire The Professor of Desire

When Philip Roth compiles lists of the writers he most admires, Tolstoy never seems to make it. There's Flaubert, Kafka, Bellow--the touchstones. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Célin...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen

Straights Can Change, Too Straights Can Change, Too

The recent New York Times front-page headline "Scientists Say Gay Change Is Possible" left me somewhat bemused.

May 17, 2001 / Richard Kim

Bush’s Antichoice Assault Bush’s Antichoice Assault

In many respects, the recent meeting in Chicago of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), the major professional association of abortion providers in North America, looked like a...

May 10, 2001 / Carole Joffe

Sex, Lies and Politics Sex, Lies and Politics

Congress is poised to reauthorize fearmongering "abstinence-only" sex ed.

Apr 19, 2001 / Feature / Marjorie Heins

The Doctor Killers The Doctor Killers

The arrest in France of James Kopp, the accused assassin of Buffalo obstetrician Barnett Slepian, could not have come at a more awkward time for the Bush Administration. Bush inau...

Apr 5, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

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