Gender

The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about their new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” Plus, a little March Madness.

What a blood test taught me about testosterone, athleticism, and sex.

From “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” to “Kramer vs. Kramer,” stories about heterosexual marriages have served as a battleground for the social politics of the day. In the wake of #MeToo, two new films explore the emotional fallout when traditional gender roles are flipped.

Mothers, daughters, and an icon’s existential crisis.

In 1973, the film theorist Laura Mulvey used concepts from psychoanalysis to forge a feminist polemic and a lasting shorthand for gender dynamics onscreen.

The author discusses “The Stuntman,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.

They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.

Gina Moxley’s play examines the sexual and behavioral strictures on women through the lens of psychotherapy circa 1964.

Women are still defying and dying in an uprising that is historically unique for being centered on women’s freedom. 

The unnamed woman in Sheona McDonald’s “Into Light” talks with care and candor about what happened after her young child said, “You know I’m really a girl.”

Instead of viewing transition as a linear medical process, Connor Lee O’Keefe’s documentary short focusses on emotion and evolution.

President Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman at the same moment when the Court is likely to ban most race-conscious selections.

She knew that her country was built on exclusion and shame.

In resuscitating the franchise, Lana Wachowski implants some good ideas and some good actors into the weakest of the series’s dramatic frameworks.

In Jessica Wolfson and Jessie Auritt’s short film “The Paint Wizzard,” Millicent McCrory’s flamboyant look generates questions.

In their self-portrait series, Laurence Philomene toys with the notion of gender transition as a kind of adolescence, finding moments when new physical forms shift social roles.

The British-American designer is helping such celebrities as Harry Styles and Solange play with stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.

How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within.

In her Vernon Subutex novels, which were huge best-sellers in France, one feels the collapse of a national myth—and a crippling disorientation in its place.