Word: genderization
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Quoting a critic's reaction to gender-blind casting in an 1895 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rigg leaned over the podium and bellowed, "The only reason the director made that choice is because it is wrong. There is no other reason...
...work may reflect a sensibility different from theirs. "The old belief held that a work of art was the same, no matter when or where or who looked at it," says Linda Nochlin, a Yale University art professor and a leading feminist historian. "The 'new' art history considers the gender of both artist and observer." For whose pleasure, for example, have all the female nudes in Western art been painted or sculpted...
...course, not all female artists today are overtly feminist. Gender has not explicitly been an issue in the work of Susan Rothenberg or Jennifer Bartlett, two of the most successful contemporary painters. Nor does it dominate the work of media artist Jenny Holzer, who this year became the first woman to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Still, the force of feminism has helped improve the odds that a female artist's work will be exhibited and taken seriously. This year's most visible example was "The Decade Show," a three-museum summer exhibition in New York City that...
...addition, deeply rooted gender sterotypes about leadership and a lack of cohesion among women voters are still proving them selves tough adversaries for female candidates. And despite all the media hype about the year of the woman, ultimately it is the voters--not the politicos--will decide if the phrase rings true...
This Sunday night solidarity, coupled with askewed male-to-female gender ratio and the factthat the group must hold closed-door meetings whendetermining grants has created an aura of mysteryaround the committee...