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...that she has not chosen, a woman, in expressing her sexuality, is merely reifying the oppressive social constraints imposed on her. Actively construed, the phrase implies that women can consciously engage in the formation of their identities, insofar as they can choose to either comply with or resist prevailing gender practices. In this vein, by encouraging women to appropriate their sexuality for their own self-defined and freely chosen ends, the feminist sexual libertarians have attempted to invert the hegemonic norms that place sex fully under male control...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent This Hotel Room for $1. No Foolin'! | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...nation was central to some of the ugliest episodes in the country's history. The French constitution proudly declares the country "an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic [that] assures equality before the law for all its citizens, without distinction of origin, of race, or religion". That gender- and color-blindness, national ideology holds, protects minority populations by ignoring the differences that divide them into often mutually hostile groups in societies like the U.S. and U.K. Indeed, few words are uttered in France with the same disdain as communitarisme: the proud identification with a component group within wider society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should France Count Its Minority Population? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...Urban Affairs, who before entering government led a civil rights movement advancing minority and feminist causes. The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amara sees official ethnic statistics as dangerous, not helpful. "Our republic must not become a mosaic of communities," she says, rejecting calls to add race to the gender, age and occupational categories contained in official data researchers use to study French society. "No one should again have to wear a yellow star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should France Count Its Minority Population? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...author of the staff editorial needs to learn that not everything misaligned with his or her political ideology is malicious. Single-sex education is not about segregation or sexism. Single-sex education is not about replacing the gender-integrated system; it’s about providing an alternative that some students find more fitting...

Author: By Justin Lanning | Title: Educational Alternative | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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