This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making...more

Veronica Vera, creator and founder of the world’s first cross-dressing academy, knows that a host of goods and services for the girl with something extra are just a ...more

When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the ...more

Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need Shoes
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men ...more

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the ...more

Dr. Steven e. Rhoads explores male/female disparities in aggression and dominance, in sexuality and nurturing. He shows how denial of these differences has affected phenomena ...more

Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, ...more