Professor Paisley Currah discusses the category of “sex” on government documents and what that says about the future of transgender rights.
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Why does the government care about labeling your gender?
Professor Paisley Currah discusses the category of “sex” on government documents and what that says about the future of transgender rights.
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The Fight Over Female Virginity
Lisabeth During joins us to talk about the history and ideas surrounding female virginity and why it is associated with both honor and rebellion.
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How Boys Learn About Sex
Peggy Orenstein joins us to talk about the ways boys and young men struggle with mixed messages about sex – and about how they, like girls, need help building relationships that move beyond the physical.
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Are Male and Female Brains Really So Different?
Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, joins us to talk about current studies on gender differences in the brain.
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If You Need A Court-Appointed Lawyer, Watch Out
Journalist Neena Satija joins us in Austin to discuss how Texas’ approach to public defense is failing low-income citizens.
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When Sex Got Political
R. Marie Griffith joins us to talk about how the split between liberal Protestants and more conservative Christians set the stage for many of the cultural battles still fought today.
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Sex And Societal Norms
We’ll talk about the groupthink that affects the way we consider sex with Rachel Hills, author of The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality.
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The Birth Of Birth Control
This hour, we’ll get to know the people who were instrumental in making the pill a reality with Jonathan Eig, who writes about them in The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
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