Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that people are judged by appearance. But the interesting--and troubling--point is that all the media comments in this article have been directed towards women. I was worried that I had somehow misattributed this fine-tuned criticism to gender issues, so I looked long and hard for men that were picked on about their appearance. However, even the harshest critique of President Clinton or Bob Dole in jogging shorts were nothing compared to the venom spit during the Hillary Clinton headband debate...
...like to think that we're in a new and better age when gender no longer matters; after all, we have had a women as our Attorney General and now a woman is a Secretary of State...
...Danilewitz is also very concerned about the "confusion" or "havoc" that might be caused by allowing transgendered individuals to live their lives as their chosen gender. If the situation were as simple as he portrays it to be--people whimsically deciding to switch genders at will and for no apparent reason--then his concerns would be valid. Perhaps a look at the definition of "gender" adopted by the Cambridge City Council would ease Mr. Danilewitz's worries...
...Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an amendment to the Human Rights Ordinance which added "gender" as a criterion which could not be used for discrimination in matters of housing, education, employment, or public accommodation. Here, gender is defined to be "the actual or perceived appearance, expression, or identity of a person with respect to masculinity and femininity." In addition, the ordinance was amended to redefine "same sex" to mean "occupying the same social and identity roles as another with respect to being male or female." The term "same sex" is used in the ordinance to allow single-sex educational institutions...
Ultimately, Kahn-Leavitt's open-ended interpretation of "A Midwife's Tale" jives well with Ulrich's own goals for her work: "to take something that seemingly tells us nothing and interpret it and put it together so that we can implement it to try to understand something about gender and culture...