Word: genderization
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Several Jewish women at Harvard have formed a group to focus on issues of gender and Judaism...
...group will not limit itself to discussing issues of gender, but will also consider other concerns of participants, members said at the meeting. The organization has also planned social gatherings and community service projects...
...Cabranes' adaptation of this script is a true tour de force. She successfully shifts the play's focus from war to gender issues and uses overtones of 1930s Hollywood to emphasize the timelessness of gender conflict. Cabranes frames the play with an artful prologue, consisting of such Hollywood clips as, "Sex always has something to do with it, dear"; "Men's all alike, married or single"; and "You're my prisoner and I'm gonna be your jailer for a long, long time...
While maintaining Aristophanes' Greek setting, Cabranes replays music from the prologue throughout the show, introduces a male and female chorus (Bart St. Clair and Faith Salie) to represent each gender as a whole, and peppers the dialogue with apt Shakespearian references and 20th century colloquialisms...
Lysistrata is an entertaining and brilliantly choreographed adaptation of Aristophanes' original. And the allusions to 1930s Hollywood--"You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything," integrated into an ancient Greek setting, successfully emphasize the timelessness of gender issues...