But while the idea that gender isn’t binary (i.e. there’s more than just men and women out there) may seem new to many people, gender non-conformity isn’t a 21st-century creation. Examples of people ...

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 87, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA, PART 1 (Summer 2020), pp. 449-453 ...

In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Virginia, named Rhoda received a prescription for two drugs: estrogen and progestin. Twelve months later, a local reporter noted Rhoda’s surprisingly soft skin and ...

In the spring of 2007, the Organization of American Historians (the nation’s premier body of professional historians, teachers, and public advocates of U.S. history) asked me to take a look at what ...

Gender roles are stereotypes regarding attitudes, attributes, and actions imposed on men and women based on gender. These kinds of preconceptions are usually harmful to society — yet, understanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children. Javier Valenzuela ...

The story of a young visionary who cast off gender and started a successful American movement for freedom, tolerance, and love. At age 18, Jemima Wilkinson dedicated herself to religion. Born in 1752, ...

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 "Women ...

In 1975, psychiatrist Robert Stoller of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote something bizarre in his textbook on sex and gender. He asserted that people who were assumed to be boys when ...