heteronormativity

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

A new book examines battles over drag story hours and book bans through the lens of LGBTQ history.

This tale of two girlhoods, Shirley Temple’s and Lindsay Lohan’s, sheds light on what “woman” means in the world of eroticized youth.

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

Tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.

Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that its gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

Law and culture forced LGBTQ people into marriages, but that didn't prevent them from exploring their sexuality.

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?

Greenwich Village’s bohemian and queer culture roots lie in its history of incarcerating women, notably via the Women’s Court and House of Detention.

The evangelical psychologist gained influence with millions of families through decades of parenting advice focused on strict discipline.

Again and again, a fervant British anticommunist's filmstrip of the novel shows images of women in states of distress.

Debating the meaning of gender is hardly new, but the clinical origin of the word may come as a surprise.

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

Conjugal visits were first allowed as incentives for the forced labor of incarcerated Black men, the practice expanding from there. Is human touch a right?

Fifty years ago, Disney World's celebrated opening promised joy and inspiration to all; today the theme park is reckoning with its white middle-class past.

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.

Disney gets inventive when they need to circumvent white people’s historical responsibility for genocidal atrocities — and queerness is a useful scapegoat.

Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.

The roots of anti-gay attitudes lay in white supremacy.

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

We must dive deeper into the intellectual artifacts of black women thinkers to support the evolution of black feminist discourse and political action.