Tag: Gender and Sexuality

She’s unmarried. She plays softball. And she’s a successful academic in the media spotlight. So what, exactly, is Elena Kagan being accused of?

June 16, 2010

Today’s post is by Deborah Cohler, associate professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University and author of Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain. —– Why do we care if Elena Kagan plays softball? Are women who smoke cigars lesbians? This isn’t the first time that a … More She’s unmarried. She plays softball. And she’s a successful academic in the media spotlight. So what, exactly, is Elena Kagan being accused of?

Non-sex workers writing about sex work

February 8, 2010

Australian sex worker Elena Jeffreys has written a review essay for Intersections about four books written by non-sex workers about sex work. She features Tiantian Zheng’s Red Lights: Zheng proposes that it is too simplistic to conclude, as Pan Suimin did, that clients only see sex workers for reasons of sexual pleasure. Rather the Chinese … More Non-sex workers writing about sex work