Word: genderization
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...continue to make trials often unbearably humiliating for women, and conviction exceedingly difficult. "Rape, as the current law defines it," says Brownmiller, "is the forcible penetration of an act of sexual intercourse on the body of a woman not one's wife." Outmoded statutes must be replaced with a "gender-free, non-activity-specific law governing all manner of sexual assaults...
...ambiguity, plurality of meaning, and so on. For Sartre, literary style is very important--he delights in three or four meanings lurking in a single string of words. The French language lends itself to a strange kind of deformation. With some words it is possible to apply a feminine gender to men and a masculine gender to women; in this way the man is feminized and the woman's femininity is undermined at the moment the two individuals are named. Sartre calls this "positive misinformation." Similarly, words can go to the extreme of "non-knowledge" instead of meaning-as-knowledge...
...were forced to meet nights and weekends. As tempers flared, medics outside the chambers tested blood pressure, and sent two people to the hospital. One representative introduced a motion to permit members time each day for conjugal visits, either with their spouses or "other close associates of the opposite gender...
...female imagination has been debated on more egalitarian grounds. There was a time when feminists regarded as counter-insurgent any effort to posit an imagination different from man's. More recently, however, women have come to note the distinction between nature (which is human) and experience (which has gender). Spacks uses the term "female imagination" in this sense to refer to women's responses to their particular situations, situations which take on special meaning because they are circumscribed in patterned ways...
...Payments. The ruling will give fresh momentum to groups seeking to batter down legal barriers based on sex. Wrote Justice William Brennan for the court: "The gender-based distinction [in the Social Security Act] is entirely irrational...