Old-fashioned gender roles tend to sneak their way into our everyday experiences, shaping the expectations and roles individuals play throughout their lives. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

Gender nonconforming individuals do not comply with societal stereotypes of how they “should” look or behave based on binary – male and female – gender roles. This article will explain what the term ...

We often hear: “boys will be boys,” “obey your husband,” etc. Many still find gender role expectations as useful. They argue that traditional gender roles assist in the division of labor; create a ...

Elisabeth Kelan receives funding from a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (MRF-2019-069) and a British Academy grant (SRG20\200195). This research was funded by a British Academy Mid-Career ...

For those who haven’t entrenched themselves as deeply into the world of the humanities as I have, taking so many HDFS and WGSS courses that this all becomes a repetitive review each semester, gender ...

After decades of creating laws that assumed “sex” and “gender” were synonymous, lawmakers across the country are taking another look at how states define those terms. Scientific and legal ...

In the years since the dismantling of Roe v Wade, women have seemed to lean in towards the hyperfeminine by adopting or, at the very least, performing incredibly traditional gender roles.

In the past few years, we've heard a lot about something called "gender ideology" that some conservative politicians and activists think is responsible for the increase in young people who identify as ...