Gender - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/gender/?source=rss&aim=gender en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT Good luck raising that gender-neutral child By Tracy Clark-Flory Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/26/gender_difference/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/26/gender_difference/index.html?source=rss Lise Eliot explains how slight biological differences in boys and girls can turn into a yawning divide in adults Was Kimberly Munley the real Fort Hood hero? By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/09/kimberly_munley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/09/kimberly_munley/index.html?source=rss She's been credited with taking down Hasan, but there's already speculation that she's another Jessica Lynch How cooking makes you a man By Sarah Karnasiewicz Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2009/07/29/catching_fire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2009/07/29/catching_fire/index.html?source=rss Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame We're all intersex By Thomas Rogers Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/07/07/xx_xy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/07/07/xx_xy/index.html?source=rss The author of "Between XX and XY" on people born neither male nor female -- and why everyone's a little bit of both "Men's rights" groups go mainstream By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/05/mens_rights/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/05/mens_rights/index.html?source=rss Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability Fear of a drag planet By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/20/gay_teens/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/20/gay_teens/index.html?source=rss For gay teens, high heels and ties can be a political act Should a teenager sail the globe? By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/19/jessica_watson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/19/jessica_watson/index.html?source=rss A 16-year-old girl has embarked on a great adventure, and prompted a great deal of fretting Morehouse College: What a drag! By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/19/morehouse_drag/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/19/morehouse_drag/index.html?source=rss The all-male, historically African-American college's new dress code bans students from wearing women's clothing Must Hollywood dads be so clueless? By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/05/boys_are_back/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/05/boys_are_back/index.html?source=rss Even movies about single fathers doing their best seem to reinforce the myth that mommies rule, daddies drool Caster Semenya is not a hermaphrodite By Thomas Rogers Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/10/caster_semenya/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/10/caster_semenya/index.html?source=rss But rumored test results reveal the controversial runner is intersex -- a shocker, likely even to her The end of sex-segregated sports By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/24/sex_athletics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/24/sex_athletics/index.html?source=rss Does the Caster Semenya controversy expose the impossibility of separating men and women on the playing field? "Women hold up half the sky" By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/21/kristof_wudunn_women/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/21/kristof_wudunn_women/index.html?source=rss An equally persuasive and heartbreaking argument that female empowerment can save the world She's a "man"... maybe By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/20/gender_testing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/20/gender_testing/index.html?source=rss Is a masculine appearance adequate grounds for gender testing world champion runner Caster Semenya? Lady Gaga has balls By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/18/lady_gaga/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/18/lady_gaga/index.html?source=rss The rumors of her penis were greatly exaggerated, but the star is still becoming one of rock's great gender benders You're a bitch, but a good soldier By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/17/women_at_arms/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/17/women_at_arms/index.html?source=rss Despite sexual harassment and a lack of proper credit, women are proving they belong in combat zones For girls, a major bummer By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/10/gender_gap_majors/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/10/gender_gap_majors/index.html?source=rss One more reason for the wage gap: What young women choose to study in college When women act like men, children die By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/07/women_driving_drunk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/07/women_driving_drunk/index.html?source=rss Anecdata and statistical manipulation about DUIs remind us that ladies who don't know their place are dangerous "I would never wife that" By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/04/ghostface_rant/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/04/ghostface_rant/index.html?source=rss And other words of wisdom from rapper Ghostface Killah's sexist rant Michael Pollan wants you back in the kitchen By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/01/pollan_on_child/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/01/pollan_on_child/index.html?source=rss The foodie author thinks we should all cook like Julia Child, minus the getting paid part The culture of (female) narcissism By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/27/narcissism_women/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/27/narcissism_women/index.html?source=rss Could inflated egos coupled with old cultural expectations be the cause of women's increasing unhappiness? Give me your tired, your poor, your battered By Lynn Harris Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/21/asylum_for_domestic_violence/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/21/asylum_for_domestic_violence/index.html?source=rss How does asylum for abused women actually work? The trans bathroom debate By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/16/trans_bathrooms/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/16/trans_bathrooms/index.html?source=rss Should people with nontraditional gender identities be allowed to choose which restrooms they use? Is it sexist to question Sotomayor's temper? By Lynn Harris Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/07/15/temperament/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/07/15/temperament/index.html?source=rss Many feminists wonder if a man would get similar treatment. Actually, he might More dangerous than "Grand Theft Auto" By Judy Berman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/14/girls_video_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/14/girls_video_games/index.html?source=rss Are video games marketed to girls more potentially harmful than the spectacles of violence aimed at boys? Sotomayor would make a hell of a guy By Kate Harding Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/10/gender_and_the_courts/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/10/gender_and_the_courts/index.html?source=rss But since she's a woman, her profile in the New York Times reads like a warning: Success makes you lonely, girls