Word: gender
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Deutsch's speech, "Visibility and Power: Chicanas in the Southwest," was based upon her recent book, No Seperate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest 1880-1940. In her book, she examines the communal life of the Hispanic woman, the way Anglo society changed that life and the effects this had on what she called the "visibility" of Chicanas...
...drive to put a U.S. woman on Everest had been something between grail and financing gimmick for at least a decade. Everything -- gender, nationalism, internationalism, ever more dangerous routes, climbing solo and without oxygen, and climbing quickly with little equipment, "Alpine style" -- is a gimmick to Himalayan climbers, whose hobby is absurdly expensive. The most strenuous effort is not on the wind-racked ridges above Camp 4; it is in corporate conference rooms, where idlers with powerful legs try to persuade achievers in powerful suits to pay for their vacations...
Equality also means understanding that public physical affection between two persons of the same gender is just as acceptable as it is between persons of the opposite sex. Until I can walk through the Yard hand-in-hand with another man without fear of physical violence or verbal abuse, the promise of tolerance at Harvard is unkept...
...Jackson sings in a song about gays and gender roles, "Now it's all changed/It's gotta change more/ `Cause we think it's getting better/ But nobody's really sure...
...pool of professors was a problem in the case of minorities, who represent only a small percentage of even the general population, such an argument cannot be extended to that of women. Women represent, in fact, a majority of the population. In addition, women, as a percentage of their gender in the general population, enter higher education at a much higher rate than do minorities...