Word: genderism
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...thoughtful discussion, however, ensues early on with the authors advancing that gender stereotyping starts very early with the traditional pink for girls and blue for boys. Until the twentieth century the authors argue that portraits of children from infancy all the way to age five were basically indistinguishable by sex. Peering into stereotypes that start in girlhood, the authors discuss favorites such as the “daddy’s girl”—a manifestation of maternal jealousy coupled with an inner drive fueled by a father’s support?...
...live in Beckett’s former domicile. It wouldn’t be the last time she barged through a shut door. She is now one of only 39 tenured female professors in the humanities at Harvard. She has done pioneering work in race, class, and gender theory and has been a powerful force of change in College curriculum: she helped implement the inception of the Women’s Studies concentration, and founded the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies...
...first book, Gynesis: Configurations of Women and Modernity, published in 1985, is part of the canon of post-structuralist feminist theory—a strain of theory that treats gender as a largely social construct imposed on biological differences. “I became fascinated by this group of people who seemed to be trying to understand the post-war world,” Jardine says...
...stronger than Spain’s, and the rest of Europe’s too, for that matter. As Brooks wrote last Tuesday, “today more than any other, it really does appear that Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.” The gender coding here is no accident—we manly Americans would never have folded like those effeminate Spaniards...
Eventually, RUS hopes to create a coalition of representatives of different groups on campus—both gender- and non-gender-focused—to work on the creation of a women’s center...