Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that if we use Title IX to eliminate gender-specific efforts in education, I think we are throwing the baby out with the bath water," Harwood says. "I think it's very helpful to have both single-gender and co-educational experiences in one's collegiate life. It's not that one should negate the other, but that one learns different things from each...
...moving more toward being a gender issues [program]," she says, explaining that many program participants would like to see the counseling embrace a wider range of issues...
...making purchases on the Internet--a popular tool of the young--only compounds that degree of painlessness says Schor, who teaches Women's Studies 132, "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" and is the director of studies for the committee on degrees in women's studies...
...trivializing. It's also great to just want to "Enjoy cock," "Have a golden shower today," "Cuff a friend" or yes (horror of horrors) even "Taste Menses." Why are these sexual behaviors sensationalistic, trivializing and fundamentally indecent? As a co-chair committed to recuperating pathologized sexualities and gender identities, I am not willing to re-closet those of us who fall outside monogamy. Public visibility is a small, initial step toward avowing these privately popular but publicly denied behaviors. One person's "sensationalism" is often another's way of desiring and living. It's not worth coming out into...
...whom is Coming Out Day intended? Although the answer may seem obvious, the Harvard "festivities" are perplexing. What is the value of random, strident and possibly offensive posters? While it is true that existing conceptions of gender and sexual roles must be called into question, it is inappropriate to pursue this goal on Coming Out Day. To challenge an existing structure inherently entails conflict. For a closeted student, inner conflict is a daily reality. Why should he or she leave the safety of the closet in order to add external conflict to that already occurring in his or her mind...