Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America By Stephen G. Bloom. Harcourt, 338 pages, $25.00 The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle over Sex,Faith, and Civil Rights By Arlene Stein. Beacon Press, 267 pages, $27.50 A stranger comes to town. It’s one of the greatthemes of American literature and film, […]
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
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Transpotting
We were standing in our neighbors’ house–I must have been five or six–next to a diaper-changing table, where the moms were cooing over a new baby. Suddenly I was dizzyingly puzzled by how adults knew whether that blurry lump of flesh was a girl or a boy. My mother was quite impatient with the question, […]