Word: genderism
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...Faculty Council voted yesterday to approve the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies’ proposal to change its title to the “Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies,” in a vote that was unanimous save for two abstentions...
...look at the courses we teach, at the kinds of scholarship our faculty members do, it is very much at the intersection of women, gender and sexuality studies,” she said. “Student interest has also shifted since the 1980s in that direction. What we’re doing is largely trying to reflect those changes that have happened in the larger field...
...said most of the concerns raised had to do with the wording of the title, rather than questioning the validity of gender or sexuality studies...
Another concern was over the meaning of the word “gender,” and whether it encompassed both the masculine and the feminine—and whether that might therefore render “Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies” redundant...
...that gays are as ubiquitous on television as Law & Order spin-offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein...