Word: genderism
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From Amherst, Massachusetts, EMILY A. OWENS ’09 lives in Stoughton and will be in Eliot next year. She is a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies concentrator and is in ABHW, Kuumba, BlackCast, FUP and WYSE as a mentor. She goes dancing occasionally, but she enjoys relaxing at home with friends over a cup of tea. She feels at home here at Harvard, and over summer she will be involved...
...classroom, we look at so many aspects of meaning and choice in expression—ways of constructing meaning through stories, deliberate and otherwise.” Regarding the function of studying stories, she states, “Stories have tremendous relevance to how we understand social constructions, gender relationships, power, history.” She sees stories as cultural artifacts, as worthy of study and as richly significant as other texts. In the end, Chadbourne’s charisma and warmth are only outshone by the unique power of her approach to her work. As she goes on, studying...
...gender imbalance among super party suites may translate into a disproportionate number of male-sponsored campus parties, according to an analysis of party grant funding done by The Crimson...
...This is not to say that the lacrosse players were intentionally acting out some twisted racial power fantasy by hiring black strippers. And these turns of events have happened before. Fordham University professor Lynn Chancer, who has written extensively on race, gender and class issues in sociology and criminology, reminded me of another lacrosse team rape case -the three St. Johns University players tried for sexually assaulting and sodomizing a black female classmate in 1991. Those men were ultimately acquitted, and the jurors, including two blacks and two Hispanics, said race did not seem to have been a factor...
...Each of these elements alone presents its own intrigue. But together they make for one of the most combustible, and, says Bonnie Thornton Dill, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, "recurrent dramas in American history." Dill likens the Duke narrative to the debate surrounding the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. "Race, class, gender and sexuality are woven together so tightly here that they cannot be separated," she says. "You cannot understand this by looking at it through a single lens of any one of these dimensions...