Word: genderization
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...anymore. Beginning in August, Hill will take a nine-month sabbatical to explore the notion of founding (and funding) an institute to study racism and sexism in the U.S. Meanwhile, on Oct. 16, Hill and Georgetown University law professor Emma Jordan will convene a one-day conference on "Race, Gender and Power in America." Hill will take the mike as keynote speaker...
...MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of marriage...
Another interesting idea whose significance is unclear is the race and gender reversals among the cast. Actress Cori Lynn Peterson is cast as boy mechanic Billy Biker, Stranger's sidekick. Japanese Mr. Yamarama is played by Bryan Van Gorder, a white actor. "Frank" and "Hank" (Sarah Sidman and Vonnie Roemer) are two valley-girl types wearing black sunglasses and neon bolero tops...
This cross-casting is intended to criticize race and gender stereotypes in contrast to Hum's prejudices. But in a genre that depends on the substitution of archetypes for complex characters, this attack seems singularly out of place...
...bishops are pressing ahead on another much discussed matter. The proposed pastoral letter endorses removal of gender-slanted language, and the process is already well along. In mid-May, the Vatican approved use of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (an example, from Psalm 8:4: "What are human beings that you are mindful of them?"), and work is under way on other such translations. The proposed new liturgy for English-speaking countries would revise the Nicene Creed, which is recited at every Mass, to state that Jesus Christ "became truly human" rather than "became...