Joe Surber (CUNY): Leveling the Playing Field: Gender and Utopia in Video Games. The strange lost feminist career of wonder woman: Heather Havrilesky reviews The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore. Kevin Hartnett on the ideal woman of 1980, and other lessons from 100 years of Vogue. Cosmopolitan's editor Joanna Coles sums up our gender double-standard in one perfect quote. Anna Griffin on why we need more female newsroom leaders. Woman doctors, woman writers — is using “woman” as an adjective demeaning? Roxane Gay on how there’s nothing wrong with famous women (or men) claiming the cause — but the fame-inist brand ambassadors are a gateway to feminism, not the movement itself. From PUP, the first chapter from Why Gender Matters in Economics by Mukesh Eswaran; and the introduction to The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions by Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg. Revealing implicit structuring norms and challenging categories of difference: Clyde Plumauzille on Joan W. Scott's critical history of inequality. From TLS, a review essay on modern sexism by Roz Dineen. Kat Stoeffel on how the war on women is getting more sophisticated. For women on the Internet, it doesn't get better. When living on tips means putting up with harassment: A national study says more than 90 percent of female restaurant workers had experienced sexual harassment. “It’s impossible to prevent someone from eyefucking you”: Catcalling — a cute name that uses the image of a soft mammal on a telephone to stand in for some super rude behavior — is something women experience everywhere, in every city and country, all the time. You won’t believe how many times this woman gets harassed in 10 hours.
