Word: sexism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only female sergeant in the University police department received a substantial wage increase as part of the settlement this summer of a sexism complaint she filed with state and city agencies...
...black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white...
Such self-inflicted torments tend to undermine the credibility of Nelson's assault on biracial sexism. So do a number of unnecessarily graphic revelations about Nelson's frantic sex life and drug abuse, which seem to have been included to pad the manuscript. Despite these flaws, Volunteer Slavery is a compelling firsthand report from the corporate combat zone where racial and sexual lines converge and blur in the most dehumanizing ways...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...
...work very well. She doesn't pull punches with her Jewish mother jokes, but she avoids the kind of vicious self hatred bordering on anti-Semitism that afflicts some Jewish comedy. She also successfully walks the tightrope between family-bashing, man-hating feminism and family-centered, woman ignoring sexism...