Word: genderism
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...while men have been allowed to run for positions since 1999—as required by the College’s gender equality rules—Zahr’s leadership role reflects the recent push within RUS to incorporate different feminist perspectives...
Zahr, an Arab-American from New Jersey, started attending RUS meetings after studying gender, feminist and queer theories. He also devoted two summers to researching the politics of the body and Middle Eastern sexuality...
Policy makers at the time believed that such consumption would not only spur the economy but create a more egalitarian society as well, Cohen says. But they didn’t realize that as consumption became synonymous with patriotism, divisions along the lines of class, race and gender persisted and were exacerbated in some cases...
...description of a character except their designation as a woman. This open-endedness allows actresses and directors to craft who these characters are, as long as they fall within the definition of woman. But what definition of woman? Such a question may seem odd to people not involved in gender studies, but there are many ways to define a woman—such as chromosomes, a vagina, breasts, a uterus, clothing, pronouns, using the ladies’ room, self-identification—and no consensus has been reached...
...there’s one thing you can’t deny Ensler, it’s that her play does encourage dialogue about the vagina. If that expands to include broader discussions of patriarchy, gender and sexuality, great. Ensler’s woman-types are more affirming and complex than those presented in much of Western culture. But if it stops with Eve’s Vagina, then we’re not much better off than we were before...