Word: genderization
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...seen as the matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There is one adolescent of each gender whose prime function is to be cute and awkward about sexual awakening; a precocious kid brother who always understands more than people think he does about what's "going down"; a good-natured father who is either baffled or angry about his brood, but not much good at problem solving...
...book convincingly insists that the road to Casablanca was not taken in the pursuit of sexual gratification. It was simply that during the whole of a successful life as a schoolboy, soldier and father-in short, as a male-Morris was tormented by the growing realization that his gender, his inner self, his center of being, his very soul, was feminine. Everything that he eventually did to become Jan was done-he says -from an agonized need for unity between sex and gender, between body and soul. In the process, though, he came to feel that in seeking to become...
...what is perhaps most striking about Paley's earlier book of stories--it would be hard to find another writer who was more of a feminist writer, earlier, than Grace Paley, or one who is more feminine, in a sense beyond gender. Henry James's sensitivity, for instance, has something clearly feminine about it. Paley brilliantly explores an important set of attitudes toward love, friendship, sex. The paperback of The Little Disturbances of Man is subtitled "stories of men and women at love." The "at" touches the heart of these attitudes: a reflecting distance, a refusal to be swallowed...
Kamin said that studies of identical twins and of adopted children isolating gender from environmental intelligence factors were so faulted and biased that they were "unworthy of scientific consideration...
Their own sexual satisfaction, however, is often less important to transexuals than the desire to match their bodies to the gender with which they identify. The major psychological problem after surgery, according to Dr. Fisk, is that in spite of careful counseling, "expectations are often way out of line with reality." For those who want to keep their operation a secret, there is also the chronic tension that goes along with the fear of discovery and exposure...