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‘Blended’ Takes Poignant Look at Unique Issues Stepfamilies Face
Several months after I began dating the man I married in 1987, we decided it was time for me to spend the night. When his two sons woke up the next morning, the younger one—then age 4—wandered into the...
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Is the ‘Panic’ Over Sexting Really Warranted?
University of Colorado Denver professor Amy Adele Hasinoff’s Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent, out last month from the University of Illinois Press, is a reasoned, if...
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Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Takes Surprisingly Earnest Look at Love
Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari’s fascinating, funny, and practical look at romance in the digital age is a surprisingly wise, fast-paced romp through U.S. sexual and marital history. Part memoir, part...
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Do We Live in a Christian America? Not Quite
For many conservative American politicians and members of the fundamentalist right wing, the idea that our nation is God’s “chosen land,” resting on a bed of Christian laurels, is a frequently invoked...
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Rachel Hills Busts ‘The Sex Myth,’ With Eye-Opening, But Depressing, Results
The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, out this week from Simon & Schuster, is an in-depth look at sex and sexuality that explores the attitudes, ideas, misconceptions, and...
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The Economy Isn’t Rebounding for Everyone
When Democrat Bill de Blasio campaigned to become New York City’s 109th mayor in 2013, he addressed the class inequality rampant in the metropolis and pledged that, if elected, he’d do what he could to...
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Another, More Feminist, World Is Possible
We’ve all done it: taken ourselves on a little mental vacation, imagined working less and loving more in the Caribbean or a Parisian café. But what if, instead, we daydreamed of heading to a “feminist...
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For Gloria Steinem, Adventure Lies ‘Just Beyond an Open Door’
When I was 14, activists Gloria Steinem and Florynce Kennedy came to a synagogue in my hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to give a talk about the then-burgeoning women’s movement. It was the late...
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‘The 1970s’: A Quirky, Scattershot Look Back at Feminism Four Decades Ago
Readers looking for a comprehensive history of the feminist social movements that existed four decades ago will not find it in The 1970s, a quirky, scattershot collection of 31 academic essays, poems,...
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‘Winning Lies Not in a Single Victory,’ Writes Author of Buoyant New Book on...
On any given day, all it takes is a quick look at the headlines to see the sorry state of world politics: Hunger, poverty, war, environmental degradation, campus shootings and stabbings, child abuse...
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