Signs

Debut novelist Jessie Chaffee on how she researched her critically-acclaimed new novel Florence in Ecstasy, with a little help from JSTOR.

Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini, a visionary nun of Renaissance Italy, was accused of heresy and “female sodomy.”

Remembering history helps us to parse the present, and it follows that women struggling to process these "decades of pent-up anger" can find apt reading material in the feminist fiction of the 1970s.

You know how the story goes. Gender discrimination is baked into science, and women were barred from the ...

Ask a Professor offers an insider’s view of life in academia. Up this month: Ruth Mazo Karmas, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

Portable electronics like smartphones and tablets are indispensable tools for mothers and caregivers. Why do we shame them for allowing kids screen time?

A new collection of letters sheds light on the fraught relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter.

In this weekend’s New York Times, writer Pagan Kennedy explored the history of menstrual products. JSTOR scholarship offers further insights.

Christian and Goth men both transgress typical notions of masculine sexuality, but how they go about it differ greatly. 

Americans still purchase approximately 1.6 billion holiday cards a year. What about this old-fashioned tradition appeals to so many?