Word: genderism
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...equal measure." At their best, Wadham's anecdotes flesh out the strengths and failings of France: her wrangling with its expansive health-care and education systems; her encounters as a journalist that include friendships with spymasters; and her experiences as a wife, mother and woman in a society whose gender relations leave her missing the supportive "sisterhood" that binds women rather than pitting them against one another. (See pictures of Paris...
Courtney A. Fiske ’11 is a social studies concentrator living in Lowell House. Her column, “The F-word,” will continue to probe issues of feminism, gender, and contemporary cultural politics on alternate Wednesdays...
...rape was not treated with enough “gravity,” that there were not enough facts, that it was not Harvard-centric enough, and that there was not enough time for discussion. But “Sex Signals” is only a beginning. By turning gender clichés on their heads and mocking sexual misconceptions, “Sex Signals” eases freshmen into thinking about the way we are socialized and how that affects our personal relationships. Furthermore, it is the focus of a mandatory workshop facilitated by trained members of the OSAPR...
...erasable wrinkle, and an un-toneable ounce of cellulite to eliminate. The pursuit of beauty is eminently frustrating (and eminently profitable) for the very reason that it can never be successfully realized. Feminism, on the other hand, aims to vitiate this notion of female inadequacy by demanding gender equality in both the public and private spheres...
Still, people tend to regard gender as a straightforward affair, and South Africa is a particularly hard place to be the "other." Apartheid's legacy has been an aggressive racial division that segregates ethnicities into plush suburbs and ghettos. The manner in which South Africa defended Semenya only underlines how obsessed with difference the country remains. When Semenya returned from Berlin, she was met by the leader of the ruling African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, who proclaimed the issue was not gender but race: Semenya was a victim of white officials, white media and unpatriotic white South Africans...