openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Boca Raton, FL/May 9, 2008 – Men – The Gods of Love by Dr. David Eigen, (Hardback, ISBN 978-0-9797399-6-5, Gender Studies Institute, 2007) has been awarded the Silver Award Category for the ... read more
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Hey fellas! Do all those bubbly broads of yours have super "girls nights out" planned for the much cooed and shrieked about Sex and the City movie? Do you, duhhh, feel left out, like you want some...
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Photo by Flickr user kristykay22. Used under a Creative Commons license. The title of this post by Hugo Schwyzer says it all “A man getting a gender studies major is most likely to be gay”: on the importance of refuting that problematic stereotypeRead his associated post here. My initial reaction, while colorful, would have sounded highly ironic so I'll just say I agree with Hugo and...
The-F-Word.org (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
I ran into a fellow grad student after class, who has recently switched from the stodgy annuals of European history to gender studies. Amy and I are both presenting papers at an upcoming history conference and I let her know that I found her topic on the sexualization of the Spice Girls interesting. [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
A reader: John, I think you and other conservative critics of Ben Stein's movie are overlooking a significant part of the damage this film is doing: it diverts attention away from the areas of the academy, such as English, Poli Sci, Sociology, gender studies, black studies, etc. that really have become real cesspools of leftist dogma and actually are dire need of reform. Conservatives...
Hugo Schwyzer (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Frederick sends me a link to this article from last week’s University of Chicago paper: Men find Academic Home in Gender Studies. Sexuality, masculinity, and interracial pornography have held particular allure for David Klein since high school, but only after coming to the U of C did Klein find a theoretical framework for talking about [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Although the overall rate of adverse events among HIV-positive people initiating antiretroviral treatment does not differ significantly among different races and genders, there are significant differences for specific adverse events, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Reuters Health reports.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Significant differences exist among ethnicities and between genders in specific adverse events related to antiretroviral treatment, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Reuters Health reports.
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Laughing at feminists is “violence”: “Colorado College has denied student Chris Robinson's appeal of its finding that he and another student violated the school's “violence” policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer of the Feminist and Gender Studies program. The school also has decided not to remove any letters about the case from [...]
The Lesbian Question (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
I learned in a gender studies class that gay men generally say that their sexuality is due to biology, i.e., they are just born that way. Gay women are more likely to say that their sexuality is a choice. Since men's opinions are more valued in most societies, the gay man experience becomes the party [...]
Science and Tech headlines (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
im currently ending my second year in college and am a biology major. but im really really interested in women and gender studies even though im planning on working in a lab, probably doing clinical research. would it be a complete waste to minor in women's studies? would it be useful for anything besides gaining knowledge on an interesting subject? would this minor maybe help...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
... a man). This is the most important 96 minutes of Ms. Fey's career, but also in the history of our gender war. It's important that we go into the theater informed, so we may properly participate in this historic debate. After the jump find a small digest of the film's reviews.The New York Times' Manohla Dargis : "Basically she's Rhoda with thinner thighs, which I guess means that she's Mary...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
CHICAGO — Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas? That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby.
Feministing (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Much thanks to Radigals of the Women's and Gender Studies Dept at Rutgers University for inviting me to return to my old stomping grounds (I got my BA there) and speak at their conference this weekend, "Feminism, the Body and Technology." I had the pleasure not only to speak for the lovely ladies of the official Undergraduate Women's and Gender Studies Association, but...
Faux Real Tho! (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
The Feminism series on Wikipedia is way, way more expansive than the last time I checked. In addition, the Wikipedians are also putting together a Gender Studies portal. Go, internetz.
The last article published by a user on Gender Studies :
adonis | 02/13/2008
Hardwired for love: Are robots the sex partners of the future? — "Not at all, says David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of "Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations".
