Word: genderization
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...Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence says the Women's Studies proposal appealed to him because it was grounded in academics, not feminist ideology. He says there are two types of Women's Studies programs around the country: feminism studies, and an interdisciplinary offering on gender in society. "The reason Women's Studies was broadly supported is because subject has already been on the agenda" of many departments, Spence says...
...precedent of an 'affirmative action' field of study, designed to elevate what they believed to be a special-interest area to the status of established fields of study in the humanities and sciences. Questions about the quality of current scholarship and the title of "Women's" rather than "Gender" Studies also disturbed opponents...
...types of insurance (Montana was the first state to do so). Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Peter Hiam ordered that firms based in his state even up their rates by July 1988. Says Hiam: "Massachusetts does not see any social value in making people pay different rates on the basis of gender...
...Gender Theory and the Yale School," she cites by name established figures such as J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartmann for their complacent refusal to consider the significance of gender for contemporary hermeneutics--the fatal blindspot, she observes, in their theories...
...these interpretive schemes, biological assumptions of gender are overcome by examining the sexes as socialized functions, so that "it is not true that literature contains no examples of male pregnancy," just as it is equally untrue that all women want to have babies. Moreover, the theoretical wordplay is reoriented, so that one now discusses literary themes in terms of matricide and womb-envy, that is, in terms of the woman's experience...