“Creepy.” “Weird.” “Messed. Up.” Such are the visceral responses of my women’s history students to an admittedly bizarre and complex […]

“Creepy.” “Weird.” “Messed. Up.” Such are the visceral responses of my women’s history students to an admittedly bizarre and complex […]
In American media and pop culture, there is a constant barrage of fear and panic about teens, especially girls, and […]
It’s Undergraduate Week at Nursing Clio! All this week we are proud to bring you amazing work written by students […]
It’s Undergraduate Week at Nursing Clio! All this week we are proud to bring you amazing work written by students […]
Master of None, the new Netflix TV show created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang (best known for their work […]
When I was 18, I attended a large gathering of evangelical Christians, just as I had every summer through high […]
“So what do you do?” We all have asked this familiar question while making small talk at a BBQ, a […]
Ever heard of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD)? It’s a new “disease” distressing tens of thousands of (presumably straight) women. […]
By Elizabeth Reis
Students at Mt. Holyoke College are protesting the annual performance of Eve Ensler’s feminist classic, The Vagina Monologues. Their gripe with the play is that by focusing on vaginas, the play perpetuates “vagina essentialism,” suggesting that ALL women have vaginas and that ALL people with vaginas are women. Transgender and intersex people have taught us that this seemingly simple “truth” is actually not true. There are women who have penises and there are men who have vaginas. Not to mention women born without vaginas! Hence, these Mt. Holyoke critics imply, the play contributes to the erasure of difference by presenting a “narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman,” and shouldn’t be produced on college campuses.
In the United States, female circumcision (the removal of the clitoral hood) and clitoridectomy (the removal of the external nub […]
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