Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightening feeling--sympathy for the devil--but not nearly as scary as what Bernays does with her women characters. The women of Bernays book, Anita in particular, are just downright unlikable. Bernays skillfully makes Anita into a stereotypical militant feminist--a hippie-turned-professor who uses gender-neutral terms and "carries around a great deal of anger...
...French diplomat who for nearly two decades carried on an affair with a male Chinese spy he professed to believe was a woman. Boursicot even claimed to have thought he had fathered a child by his "mistress," and when confronted in court with evidence of his partner's true gender, refused to accept it. "I knew right away that this was for me," Hwang said. Where others saw in Boursicot's story one of the odd corners of human life, Hwang perceived in it -- or reinvented it to be -- a reflection of decades of megatrends, from the French fiasco...
...have the presence of mind to reflect that Karen's "Thirteen" (the floor number) was uttered more in the style of a hierarchical demand than a request from an equal? Did no one conceive of the presumptuousness of speaking that way to anyone, regardless of color or gender? Did no one even notice the absence of so basic a courtesy as "please"--or blush for the tone of despotic privilege that omission almost invariably conveys...
Hochschild describes what she calls a stalled revolution, with both men and women following "gender strategies" that prevent progress. Traditional men, those who believe that women should tend children and kitchen even when the family money squeeze forces them to take jobs, actually do more chores in the home than the "transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household...
...unable: they lack stage training and technique for the classics or succumb to the heebie-jeebies of stage fright. Director Harold Guskin, a noted acting coach, has coaxed his players into charm and clarity in telling myriad tales of mistaken identity, most of which turn on the interchangeability of gender. Mastrantonio lacks the requisite androgyny but is otherwise faultless. Woodard, one of four black leads chosen in admirably color-blind casting, excels at seductive banter, and Andre Braugher is thrillingly intense as a pirate who risks his life to help a shipwrecked princeling. Hines serves mostly as a vaudevillian onlooker...