Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Mar 26, 2016

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“Why It’s So Hard for Men to See Misogyny”

“When women took to Twitter to share their own everyday experiences with men who had reduced them to sexual conquests and threatened them with violence for failing to comply — filing their anecdotes under the hashtag #YesAllWomen — some men joined in to…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Oct 19, 2017

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‘Glow’ Star Betty Gilpin: What It’s Like to Have Pea-Sized Confidence With Watermelon-Sized Boobs”

“So in my 20s, I had to work doubly hard to disappear. The word “sorry” escaped my mouth a hundred times a day. I spent most of my time at parties trying to…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Oct 13, 2017

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“The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment”

“The U.S. government recognized a pattern in the Al Capone case: smuggling goods was a crime often paired with failing to pay taxes on the proceeds of the smuggling. We noticed a similar pattern in reports of sexual harassment and assault: often people…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Aug 12, 2018

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“Inside Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch: Come for the sex. Stay for the negotiation skills.”

“It is important to study the darkest parts of the economy. We don’t always see the small, important subtleties that make markets work in the conventional economy. Those…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 12, 2015

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“Benevolent Sexism and Support of Romantic Partner’s Goals: Undermining Women’s Competence While Fulfilling Men’s Intimacy Needs”

“Men who endorsed benevolent sexism provided more dependency-oriented support, including directly providing…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Feb 1, 2019

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“What is Scottish Witchcraft (or not)? — the role of the wise women”

“It is important to note here that I am not using the word Witch. Witchcraft in Scotland was known as buidseach(male) or bana-bhuidseach (female) and only appears after the 16th century, about the time of the…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

May 26, 2016

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“You’re Right, I Didn’t Eat That”

“There are a number of euphemisms for female thinness that do not require a man to make the impolite admission of his exclusive attraction to women with very little body fat. Though “active” and “full of energy” make respectable showings, they are a distance second and…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Feb 12, 2017

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“Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women”

“These results indicate that Harvard MBAs aimed for and continue to value fulfilling professional and personal lives. Yet their ability to realize them has played out very differently according to gender. Among those graduates who are…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Oct 22, 2016

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“The Etymology of ‘Woman’”

“Although the majority of English words are loaned, borrowed, or stolen from other languages, woman has no cognates in contemporary or historic foreign languages, making it one of few exclusively English words. The word is derived from wyfman, the combination of wyf [wife] and man…

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 8, 2018

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“How St. Augustine Invented Sex”

“As a young man who had already fathered a child, he knew that, for the entire human species, reproduction entailed precisely the sexual intercourse that he was bent on renouncing. How could the highest Christian religious vocation reject something so obviously natural?…

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