Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific. It is a history of people, of their bodies and ...

Two burial sites from Hungary provide contrasting pictures of gender divisions as the Stone Age entered its final stage.

Introduction: Whose stories are we telling? -- In and out of the studio : early professionals and amateurs -- Avant-gardes : modernity and the "new woman" -- On the street : documentary and reportage ...

Life courses and gender roles -- Marriage and family -- Sex, body, and medicine -- Labor, profession, and everyday life -- Religions -- Arts, literature, and education -- Five women to remember ...

We asked Americans a series of questions about changing gender roles for men and women. First, we asked if society is too accepting or not accepting enough of men and women who take on roles typically ...

Lead researchers Nicole Hiekel from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Katia Begall from the Radboud Universiteit examined how gender role attitudes influence family ...

Although 17th-century colonial Virginia seems like an unexpected place to defy the gender binary, a 26-year-old servant named Thomasin Hall did just that. As if life in colonial Virginia wasn’t ...

Bill Jennings, a 69-year-old libertarian who lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, said his mother and wife both worked outside the home, but he has been impressed by the younger generation of women in his ...

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.