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...natural consequence of having a female-sexed biological body; rather, a person becomes a “woman” through assimilation into a socially constructed category defined in opposition to “man.” Yet the ambiguity of the verb “becoming?? invites both passive and active interpretations of Beauvior’s concept. Passively construed, the phrase contends that a person is made into a woman by social forces beyond her control; coerced into compliance with norms of femininity that she has not chosen, a woman, in expressing her sexuality...
...Harvard is the House That Ego Built, then in the last semester faculty and administrators have made some impressive additions. But it’s been tough slogging, and without “The Great Debaters” to tide us over Harvard would be in real trouble of becoming??forgive me—just another university. ’Round these parts, we’re taught never to settle for being below the fold, and that true greatness requires a well-timed announcement. Spare the press release, however, and you’ll spoil the whole...
Without a son, Nabokov now dotes on his father’s memory, recently playing the renowned author on stage at a celebration of his father’s centennial at Cornell. “I was bathed in the thrilling aura of ‘becoming?? my father for a spell,” he writes...
...root for a dominant football team that is quickly becoming??dare we say it—a dynasty...
With the NCAA penalty crackdown—an attempt to alleviate the excessively clutch-and-grab game that college hockey is rapidly becoming??both teams had to expect an active whistle...