Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. In addition to dozens of research papers, chapters, and essays, she is the coauthor of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (2015), coeditor of Assigned: Life with Gender (2017), and the author of a book about the culture of sex on campus: American Hookup (2017).


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The Big Picture: Confronting Manhood after Trump

If it were fiction, it would have been dismissed as preposterous. America …

The Big Picture: Confronting Manhood after Trump

If it were fiction, it would have been dismissed as preposterous. America elected a grotesque, slobbering id to the highest office of the most powerful country in the world: a thundering narcissist who, without irony, describes himself as “the world’s greatest person.”1 And central to his persona is a vulgar and vindictive masculinity; not cold […]