Word: genderism
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...people, of how they made something out of nothing, and how that nothing has come to define an entire era in many ways, be it our language, our fashion, our attitudes, our art, the way we make music, and the way we do and do not communicate across race, gender, geography, and cultures...
...CONTROVERSIES WITHIN HIP-HOP - the "civil war" between the coasts; the issues of corporate control and censorship; issues of gender and the struggle of women rappers to challenge the negative stereotypes of black women reinforced by some of their male colleagues - are alluded to in passing, but receive scant attention in "Hip-Hop Nation." Still other questions, such as the obvious tension between artists who still see themselves as community activists and those who simply head for the Hamptons are scarcely raised. But as the organizers emphasize, the show is an introduction rather than the last word, and the deeper...
...Sensibility" browses the back room of the canon to find what was really on early modern minds. Some may say the basics never change--man, woman, etc.--but "Sex and Sensibility" calls out a host of whores, hermaphrodites, and pregnant nuns to bring 18th-century gender perplexity out of the funky armoire...
Building first on the era's not-so-simple gender conventions, the course then follows how such identities dictate desires and relations and asks "What do men and women really want?" before tracing sexuality from the tame to the profane...
Medical texts and conduct books for men and women will showcase some of the more ridiculous takes on sex and gender at the time...