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Questioning Gender

PORTFOLIO OF IMAGES


J. Howard Miller We Can Do It!
Alfred Eisenstaedt V-J Day in Times Square
Anonymous Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch
Anonymous Historic Gay Marriage Ceremony

STORIES AND TESTIMONIES


Julia Alvarez I Want to Be Miss America
Bernard Cooper A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood
Edwidge Danticat We Are Ugly, but We Are Here
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman
Noel Perrin The Androgynous Man
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?
Elizabeth Wong The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl

BODIES AND BIOLOGY


Margaret Atwood The Female Body
Lynne Luciano Male Body Image in America
Emily Martin The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles
Phyllis Rose Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain
John Updike The Disposable Rocket

CONSTRUCTS AND INSTITUTIONS


Judy Brady I Want a Wife
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
K. C. Cole Women in Science
Aaron H. Devor Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender
Laura Kipnis Against Love
Deborah Tannen There Is No Unmarked Woman
Paul Theroux Being a Man
Cornel West On Black Fathering

ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES


Susan Brownmiller Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Sam Schulman Gay Marriage—and Marriage
Gloria Steinem Why Young Women Are More Conservative
Andrew Sullivan Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage
Lindsy Van Gelder Marriage as a Restricted Club
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