International adoption has quietly become a large, lucrative business. While international adoption agencies would no doubt like to keep it this way, adult international adoptees are now asking questions. They are participating in a debate over whose best interests the practice actually serves, or should serve: the adopter or the adoptee? Taking a critical look [...]

In the 1990s a new generation of women heralded the dawn of a new feminist era. But does declaring a “new wave” – particularly one that equates individual lifestyle choices with activism, consumer power with feminism, and diversity with racial equality – make for a feminist social movement? Heather Tirado Gilligan explores this issue through [...]

USA Today is very excited about marriage. Splashed across the front page of the Health and Behavior section in February, and set off by a colorful illustration, was this pom-pom raising headline: “Federally funded ad campaign holds up value of marriage.” You read that right -federal funds are being used in an ad campaign to [...]