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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Going beyond the binary in historical explorations of sex and gender
Faculty member Beans Velocci

Beans Velocci, a faculty member in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, studies the complex and conflicting ways gender and sex have been investigated and represented by scientists and medical professionals.

Going beyond the binary in historical explorations of sex and gender

Beans Velocci of the School of Arts & Sciences explores how sex and gender have been shaped and categorized through history—and the consequences of those constructions taking on the guise of scientific and medical fact.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Europe is ahead of the U.S. on gender equity. So why is abuse in HE rife?
Times Higher Education

Europe is ahead of the U.S. on gender equity. So why is abuse in HE rife?

In an opinion piece, Susan B. Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice contrasts Europe’s pronounced efforts to reduce gender inequality with recent studies which find alarming rates of gender-based violence in European universities.

What Iran’s protest slogans tell us about the uprising
The Washington Post

What Iran’s protest slogans tell us about the uprising

Fatemeh Shams of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Iranian protest chants have shifted emphasis from male political figures and systemic reform to teenaged female martyrs and rejection of any form of autocratic rule.

‘Citizenship on the Edge’
A book cover depicting a woman wearing a striped top and face and body paint. She is holding a rainbow flag. The book cover reads: Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race

A new book by anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas and political scientist Nancy J. Hirschmann compiles a series of essays examining citizenship from an interdisciplinary lens. 

‘Citizenship on the Edge’

In a new book, anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas and political scientist Nancy J. Hirschmann look at who’s kept out of social governance and belonging.

Kristina García

Is this painting of a fox one of the greatest works of American art?
Philadelphia Inquirer

Is this painting of a fox one of the greatest works of American art?

Jonathan Katz of the School of Arts & Sciences explains why he’s excited about Harriet Hosmer’s marble sculpture, Puck on a Toadstool, featured at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Why you should be worried about the Supreme Court
Vice

Why you should be worried about the Supreme Court

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts appears on an episode of “System Error” to explain how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has impacted and disenfranchised women, particularly Black women.