Word: genderization
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...upon her the need to be well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
Thus female love can no longer be considered a defense or compensation for a lost penis. Other writers doubt that female gender identity-a child's sense of being a girl-stems entirely from a sense of castration and penis envy...
...tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex of the painted fan behind the girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that it is the work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract...
Stoller, who has been studying gender identity and sexual perversion, concludes that the same psychic factors found in perversion are also found in the sexual lives of most people: hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree...
...court ruled that "pregnancy is not gender related--that it is just coincidence that it happens only to women," Lawrence H. Tribe, professor of Law, said yesterday. "I find that difficult to justify," he added...