gender-studies

"She's your mom." "They're your family." "Blood is thicker than water." For generations, these familiar idioms have illustrated what Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith, co-authors of the 2022 book "Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents" (NYU Press), term compulsory kinship: the social expectation that biological and legal family ties must be preserved at all costs. In…

Kini Saxena, B.Com. LL.B. (H), LLM (Family Law), PhD (Pursuing), Shobhit University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh ABSTRACT Marriage is idealized as a sacred union between two parties wherein mutual respect, companionship and mutual consent can become a site of coercion, trauma and disrespect if the sexual autonomy is violated by the husband. The notion of sexual consent within marriage is not respected …

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08642-6 Exploring mixed and female co-facilitation in an intervention program for perpetrators of intimate partner violence

Is academia really the career for you? Four women in neuroscience, from PhD student to Reader, reflect on the highs, challenges and unexpected sacrifices of life in research and share the advice they wish they could give their younger selves.

“State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports… Many trans and nonbinary philosophers find themselves forced to make difficult decisions about where to apply for graduate school or jobs, without reliable information about conditions on the ground.” Obt…

Piyusha Pradhan, Advocate, Odisha, India Simran Sahoo, Ph.D. Scholar, KIIT School of Law ABSTRACT This paper explores the continued status of women in India within the context of the overall cultural climate that reveres women, including the worship of goddesses as well as the national icon Bharat Mata, but at the same time considers the long-term trends of oppression and subordination of women. …

Ghana’s history with implementing laws threatens the success of the affirmative action law.

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.

The government has decided against including questions about sexuality and gender identity in the 2026 Census. How can it make policy for LGBTQI+ people without such basic data?

An experimental study found that the vast majority of women didn’t support a pay policy that corrected for an advantage they received, slightly more than men in the same position.

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

A growing number of women are choosing to be ‘defiantly single’, yet the stigma against them persists.

Tracing the history of this emotion can help us understand how it came to be empowering for LGBTQIA+ people – even as certain groups try and hijack it.

Can a gender studies academic also write Mills and Boon novels? And can purple prose be as empowering as a pink pussy hat? The answer is yes, and yes again.