Emily Shire
Emily Shire is chief researcher for The Week magazine. She has written about pop culture, religion, and women and gender issues at publications including Slate, The Forward, and Jewcy.
Latest articles by Emily Shire
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To wax or not to wax: How pubic hair became a debate about feminismfeature The year 2013 has been hailed as the Return of the Bush
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Why people hate feminists, environmentalists, and activists in generalfeature A new study offers insight into why so many of us are unmoved by their grating do-good ways
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The problem with TIME's cover story on the child-free lifefeature And what it says about our attitudes toward the childless
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PETA is now fat-shaming women into vegan dietsfeature Recent findings about Plan B have spurred the advocacy group's questionable new campaign
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4 other times the Girl Scouts have been demonized by the religious rightfeature Pastor Kevin Swanson's accusations that Girl Scout cookies support lesbians and communists is only the latest bizarre accusation
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Does watching porn make you sexist?feature Or does it depend on the type of porn you watch?
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Men: Don't blame your cheating on 'stronger sexual impulses'feature That old excuse is not going to fly
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5 weirdest naked college traditionsfeature The strange nude ways of higher education
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Halloween should be scary, not paranoidfeature Unfounded fears of poisoned candies, sex offenders, and religious faux pas have been a real buzzkill
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Is Facebook making you unhappy?feature More evidence that the social network leads to the blues
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Should we pay women to breastfeed?feature The latest skirmish in the Mommy Wars is unfolding in the U.K.
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Men care more about having it all than womenfeature They just don't know how implausible it is
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Reality check: Online harassment of women can do serious harmfeature Just because the abuse is digital doesn't mean it's innocuous
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'Tis the season for having sex with old flames and ruining your office reputationfeature A new study shows the holiday season encourages some poor relationship choices
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Why '300 sandwiches' is a horrible price for an engagement ringfeature For Stephanie Smith, the way to a man's heart is still his stomach
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Elizabeth Wurtzel joins the Generation X trend of bashing millennialsfeature Move over Joel Stein, a far less coherent critique of those pesky youngsters has arrived
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OkCupid lets you filter out unattractive people (for a price)feature A-List members on the free dating site are paying to filter by body types and attractiveness, but is it fair?
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The surprising case for abortion contractsfeature J.J. Redick's alleged agreement may not be as crazy as it seems
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Why American Apparel's Period Power T-shirt is a useful controversyfeature A shirt featuring a masturbating, menstruating vagina gets people talking about real issues
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The Father's Day Index: By the numbersfeature You can't put a price on a good dad — or can you?
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You can be obese and metabolically healthyfeature Give credit to your mitochondria
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Do men experience menopause?feature A new study suggests men are not immune to the typical symptoms
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Once-a-month, post-sex birth control pills could be a realityfeature If political opposition doesn't get in its way
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Why Facebook makes breaking up even worsefeature Don't underestimate the emotional pain of going from "In a Relationship" to "Single"
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