Word: genderedness
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I'm not opposed to cross-dressing per se, or social uncertainty as expressed in sexual ambiguity. And androgyny, of course has its illicit appeal. The liberating possibilities of cross-dressing do not entirely escape me. I don't submit to the totalitarian stranglehold of gendered dressing. When subtly scaled...
This blatant association of "girlish[ness]" with an ability to formulate well-reasoned, logical opinions resonated loudly with the previous day's debate. Here was an unambiguously negative use of a term denoting femaleness, in which the negative implications sprang from the very gender being invoked. One could not ignore...
In the speech, titled "Gendered Readings of Dependency: Thinking Critically About the Language of Welfare," Gordon told an audience of about 50 women and three men that the word "dependence" has become discriminatory against women.
A full day of panel discussions and speeches that followed Anderson-Manley's lecture focused on a reinterpretation of the state bureaucracy as a gendered institution.
Two cheers, anyway. Because this is not the revolution that I, at least, signed on for. When the feminist movement burst forth a couple of decades ago, the goal was not just to join 'em -- and certainly not just to beat 'em -- but to improve an imperfect world. Gloria Steinem...