Word: gendered
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...evolution of democracy has been a long and, at times, painful process. In the last millennium governments of the people have managed to eliminate unjust voting restrictions based on race, property and gender. Now, we stand on the brink of true equality among the citizenry with only one obstacle still blocking the way: age restriction. According to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, only American citizens who have reached the age of 18 years possess the inalienable right of suffrage. By disenfranchising the seventy million citizens under that age, we as a nation relinquish our claim to be a democracy or even...
...could reasonably expect a candidate to argue against, say, 24-hour library access or student input into the College’s Allston expansion, candidates made the unfortunate decision to try to differentiate themselves based on experience (or lack thereof), self-perceived personal capacity for leadership and even gender and house affiliation; the Teo P. Nicolais ’06-Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 ticket never hesitated to point out that vice-presidential candidate Mannapperuma ’06 was the only female candidate for either position, and also the only Quad resident in the running. Outside...
Niki Cairo’s inspirational story features Keisha Castle-Hughes in the role that made her a star. As Paikea, a young girl of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, Castle-Hughes confronts issues of tradition, family, race and gender in her struggle to prove herself to her grandfather. Free and open to the public. Wednesday at 7 p.m. Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis...
Langdell Professor of Law Martha A. Field ’65, who was one of the first females to be tenured at the Law School, said last month that “the [gender] imbalance among assistant professors is definitely a problem which I think the school is aware of.” But Kagan noted that the total number of tenure-track faculty is so low that “it’s hard to tell anything meaningful about male-female ratios...
...supply Abigail with some sort of useful masculine agency. Unsurprisingly, she becomes a damsel in distress soon enough, and Cage pumps up the virility. Riley, of course, is left on the sidelines as a site of emasculation and phallic failure. The end of the film affirms these yawn-inducing gender politics when Riley complains that he only got a tiny bit of the reward because Gates was too noble to take any more of it. Riley becomes the stereotypical gay doppelganger—materialistic and annoying—while Gates comes off as selfless, noble, and dead sexy...