Word: feministic
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...result of societal practices instead of from genetic blueprints. The suggestion that gender differences affect scientific aptitude is also problematic, as it reinforces a gender hierarchy that gives preference to male behavior over female behavior and fails to recognize other genders altogether. Additionally, these beliefs promote the anti-feminist message that women are able to succeed only to the extent that they behave like men, which I would hope President Summers does not support...
...interpretive energies on that last phrase. Long-standing arguments between Catholics and Protestants revolved around whether Mary inherently possessed the grace enabling her to accept the divine will (making her more worthy of Catholic-style reverence) or was granted it on an as-needed basis. These days, however, some feminist readers like Vanderbilt University's Amy-Jill Levine, editor of the forthcoming Feminist Companion to Mariology, are more interested in what might be called Mary's feistiness. After all, Levine points out, the handmaid line does not follow immediately upon the angel's tidings that "thou shalt conceive...
...committing adultery; much later Jewish sources named a Roman soldier called Panthera. Those accusations, some scholars believe, account for the verse in Matthew in which Joseph considers divorcing Mary before his dream angel allays his doubts. Related notions of Jesus' illegitimacy have never totally disappeared. Jane Schaberg, an iconoclastic feminist critic at the University of Detroit Mercy, has long maintained that parts of Luke's introduction to the topic echo the beginning of an Old Testament passage on rape ("If there be a virgin betrothed to a man, and if another ... should have lain with her"), suggesting violation...
Dad’s DVD gift can be none other than the remake of The Stepford Wives. Though the film has a lot of difficulty presenting women as anything but bimbo-blonde housewives or bull-dyke businesswomen, and thus fits nicely into a shameful tradition of post-feminist narratives that ultimately regress to gender stereotypes and thinly-veiled Victorianism, Dad can still learn a few lessons from the film. For example, don’t turn your wife into a sex robot because she is occasionally bothersome. Most importantly, Christopher Walken is actually a machine, carefully programmed by Glenn Close...
...actualization, fantasy and queer identities in a world constrained by morality aren’t new to Almodovar, but rarely has he so effectively correlated these themes with the tenets of his unique cinema. Bad Education utilizes the typically Almodovarian production schemes, quirky dialogue, ambiguous moral codes and post-feminist politics to create a cinematic space that is more usefully reflexive than his past work. As the film moves toward and comments upon the post-modern “reality” embodied in Ignacio’s development, Almodovar productively pushes the envelope as he weaves...