By Stacy Torres, SWS Member
Read the full article on the San Francisco Chronicle here.
Open Forum: Goodbye, childbearing years — and good riddance
Natasha Santana
Olympic Runner Who Once Competed Against Caster Semenya Weighs In On Testosterone Ruling
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Madeleine Pape (SWS Member), who once competed against Caster Semenya, about the issue of female runners with unusually high levels of testosterone.
Listen to the podcast/ read the transcript here.
Maine leads on reproductive freedom
By Amy Blackstone, SWS Member and SWS 2019 Feminist Activism Award Winner
Read the full article here.
Why Women, but Not Men, Are Judged for a Messy House
They’re still held to a higher social standard, which explains why they’re doing so much housework, studies show.
By Claire Cain Miller
Barbara Risman is mentioned in this article. A recent study from the journal Gender & Society was featured.
View full article here.
Grow Old Like ‘The Golden Girls’
By Amy Blackstone
Amy is an SWS Member and 2019 Winner of the SWS Feminist Activism Award.
View full article on the New York Times here.
Finding Victory: Speaking out for intersex girl after attack
BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST ASSOCIATED PRESS
SWS member and Chair of the Media Relations Subcommittee, Georgiann Davis, is cited in this article.
Please view full article here.
Does Sociology Silence Black Women?
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, SWS Member and Past SWS-President
View the full article on Gender & Society.
Should we celebrate Sport’s Illustrated‘s burkini cover?
By Afshan Jafar (SWS Member)
Ms. Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at Connecticut College.
View the article here.
Happy ‘Other’ Mother’s Day
By Stacy Torres (SWS Member)
Click here to read the article on the LA Times.
Stacy Torres is an assistant professor of sociology at UC San Francisco.
Email: stacy.torres@ucsf.edu
Website: https://stacymtorres.wordpress.com/
Faculty Page: https://sociology.ucsf.edu/faculty
The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation
There’s a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation. So why do we view them so differently?
By Afshan Jafar (SWS Member)
Ms. Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at Connecticut College.
View the article on the NY Times website.