The clergy, who represented a variety of religious traditions, had gathered at the airport to block traffic in protest of the ...

I’m squarely middle-aged with friends in their 30s through 60s who have made serious relationship commitments that are now ...

New data about the science aptitude of boys and girls around the world inspires me to re-post this discussion from 2010. Math ability, in some societies, is gendered. That is, many people believe that ...

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more… ...

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more… ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

Cross-posted at The Huffington Post. Why do women wear high heels? Because men did. Men were the first sex to don the shoe. They were adopted by the European aristocracy of the 1600s as a signal of ...

The cartoon added below inspired me to revive this post from 2008. Many believe that the U.S. is at the pinnacle of social and political evolution. One of the consequences of this belief is the ...

A new example prompts us to re-post this fun one from 2010. We’ve posted in the past about the way in which “male” is often taken to be the default or neutral category, with “female” a notable, marked ...

Robin H., Tomi L., and Kate McL. asked us to talk about the new movie, Avatar. Tomi thought the gender politics were great, with men and women as equals fighting and ruling side-by-side. I think she’s ...

I can’t offer much in the crowded field of Disney gender criticism. But I do want to update my running series on the company’s animated gender dimorphism. The latest installment is Frozen. Just when I ...