Word: gendered
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...their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting that his subjects' disgust for "coconuts" actually masks a fear that they themselves might be considered soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree, Malkani spent years trying to turn his dissertation into a nonfiction...
...Catholic organization Opus Dei [April 24]. Any group that is exclusive, isolated and secretive cannot be truly Christian. Just like the press investigations into the protection given to pedophile priests, your article will help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy as well as the flaw of gender-determined and gender-dominated leadership. So absorbed are the church leaders in protecting their own agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. ETTA ALBRIGHT Cresson...
...proposal that would allow the Undergraduate Council to fund events hosted by student groups that discriminate based on gender or religion has gained new life. UC President John S. Haddock ’07, who ruled that the proposal had failed at the council’s Monday night meeting, now acknowledges that a “parliamentary twist” might change the result of the vote.UC members voted by a 26-19 margin Monday night to amend the council’s nondiscrimination provision. That rule currently bars funding for organizations such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American...
...Double the budget of the Concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
...tells the classic Scrooge tale, except the ghosts keep showing up at inappropriate times, and Bob Cratchit’s wife is planning suicide. 1994’s “Durang/Durang,” an evening of six short plays, includes a Tennessee Williams-inspired, gender flipping parody, titled “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls.”BEYOND HARVARD For Durang, Harvard holds many bittersweet reminders of his undergraduate years—memories that he might revisit this weekend, during his visit.You might find Durang visiting Weld (his freshman dorm), or checking...