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Beauvoir, for her part, took on the question by denying its validity. Rejecting essentialist explanations for the female condition, Beauvoir famously declared, “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The “eternal feminine??—those behaviors and character traits that set women apart from men—were humanly created, Beauvoir argued, not natural. Rather than evidencing a perverted female essence or mistaken choice, feminine traits reflected woman’s situation. For Beauvoir, women’s biological nature could never be experienced apart from...
...original portrayal of Richard II cast the ruler as weak, poetic—even feminine??and constantly struggling to live up to his position. The decision by director Meryl H. Federman ’11 to use only female actresses for this production appears to be motivated by this original depiction, and it is a choice that defines the play. The production makes no effort to bring any other new aspects to the script, relying solely on its unorthodox casting to make its claims about femininity...
...Lady of British Musical Theater.” One could think of her performance as a sort of anti-synesthetic experience, as the sound that emerged from her corpulence was quite the opposite of what she looks like. Boyle’s voice was youthful, absorbing, assured and remarkably feminine??not a set of qualities that could be ascribed to her appearance. It is this dichotomy in particular—notably the seamless transition between initial derision and the audience’s eventual, benevolent embracement of her—that has been the driving force behind Boyle?...
...This election saw two women come historically close to our government’s highest offices. But while Sen. Hillary Clinton fought an ambitious and powerful campaign—and was more often accused of being too manly than too feminine??Sarah Palin coyly and repeatedly played into many of her gender’s stereotypes. As her political blunders added up, she revealed her complete unpreparedness for politics at a national level and became Sen. John McCain’s greatest liability in his pursuit of the presidency...
Another concern was over the meaning of the word “gender,” and whether it encompassed both the masculine and the feminine??and whether that might therefore render “Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies” redundant...