Word: genderism
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Ashton R. Lattimore is certainly correct that gender and sexuality are distinct categories and ought not to be conflated in academic analysis. Nor is she the first to argue for such a methodological separation. However, her claims that gender and sexuality have little to do with each other are misinformed. Can we really say, for example, that women’s suffrage has “little, if anything” to do with sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from...
...writer is a graduate student in the history department of Yale University studying gender and sexuality...
...percent in 2004-2005.It’s too soon to tell whether the sheer one-year drop, identified in the first annual FAS report on diversity, represents an anomaly or the start of a new trend. But the finding raises a flag for FAS as it works to increase gender diversity in a faculty where less than 19 percent of 478 tenured professors are women.The report by Lisa L. Martin, the FAS senior adviser on diversity, called the drop a “troubling reversal.” The dramatic fall in women’s acceptances came even though...
...While gender and sexuality may be different categories of analysis, the two concepts have been historically intertwined and continue to influence each other today—think, for example, of stereotypes of the effeminate gay man or “butch” lesbian. To study gender without thinking about sexuality, or vice versa, would miss critical points of analysis for understanding sexual and gender identities and categories...
...therefore applaud the Committee on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality for providing a forum for students to study gender, sexuality, and their intersections. When I was an undergraduate, no official committee or department existed for critical studies of sexuality. Students interested in these issues sought out individual faculty members dispersed in departments throughout the university; the Committee on Women’s Studies, while sympathetic, rarely offered courses dealing specifically with sexuality. While combining the two fields may not be a perfect solution, I am glad that sexuality studies finally has a home, and that students have a forum...