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...with moments of sexualized brutality, served as her senior thesis along with a writing component, entitled “Theater of the Abject: The Powers of Horror in Sarah Kane’s ‘Blasted.’” Lloyd-Bollard, who is a Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, stumbled upon the intersection of her extracurricular and academic interests, saying, “I got really interested in where the two [disciplines] meet and theories involving performativity of the self and of identities and of gender identity and sexuality and how you can explore these theories...
Nadia O. Gaber ’09-’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature and women, gender, and sexuality concentrator in Kirkland House...
...academy, there has been such a rush to demonstrate a collective commitment to sociopolitical progressivism—to a tolerance of alternative sexualities and sexual lifestyles, that is—that we have suspended rigorous examination of these themes. Certainly, great strides have been in the academic area of gender studies, and the field does seem to provide a unique opportunity to engage students in otherwise marginalized subject matter. However, our commitment to engagement can cause the door of academic tolerance to be left open too wide, giving way to the pernicious sense that anything or anyone that presents...
There are journalistic reasons to make this call too. Race and gender are real campaign issues--and white men have every right to cover them--but the networks have been practically handicapped by their makeup. If they were not largely fronted by white men, they would have been less vulnerable to the uncomfortable images of the media's boys ganging up on Hillary in the earlier debates or of largely white TV personalities piling on Obama about Jeremiah Wright in the much trashed ABC debate and before. Finally, there are solid business reasons. If TV news has any hope...
Cynthia Gordy, associate editor of Essence Magazine, a lifestyle publication for black women, says that the contest promotes a “balance in mainstream hip-hop’s messages.” Part of this balance involves the gender representation in mainstream...