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Gender and the Criminal-Legal System

Nov 15 2022
By Shelly Clevenger and Jordana N. Navarro, authors of Gendering Criminology: Crime and Justice TodayIn Gendering Criminology, we take readers on an exploration of how gender informs major criminological perspectives and structures life experiences in terms of criminal engagement and victimizati
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Fighting Inside and Outside of the Ring: How Luchadoras Challenged Gender Norms in 1950s Mexico

Apr 26 2021
Marjolein Van Bavel's "Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s"—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to read for free for a limited time— examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers
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