Word: genderization
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...junior division of women's liberation struck out a few weeks ago when 12-year-old Sharon Poole's little league baseball team in Haverhill, Mass., had to drop her from the roster because, despite her batting and fielding talents, she was the wrong gender (TIME, July...
...BOOK is divided into four parts- Body. Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral...
Despite her given name, De Monaghan's gender is unmistakable. She is the most erotic film teen-ager since Lee Remick's drum majorette in A Face In the Crowd. But Jerome is a creature of such intellectuality that lust comes to him in whispers. It is not Claire's torso that he craves. Only her knee. In time he manages to palpate the beloved object...
...conform, but acts as a unit [in the] patriarchal state which rules its citizens through its family heads." Male power is enforced by the man's position as head of the household: other members of the family must rely upon his economic and social status. Within the family, gender roles are ideologically reinforced. Girls, for instance, are taught to cook and sew passively, in imitation of their mothers; boys are encouraged to be aggressive in imitation of their fathers. Biologically, she argues, there is little real difference between the sexes, beyond the specific genital characteristics. The heavier musculature...
...Robin Fox. He says he is no misogynist, but, he charges, she's "inventing a new mythology to replace the old one . . . She's playing ducks and drakes with the truth, and in the process doing herself and her cause a disservice." Specifically, Fox says, Millett's theory that gender identity is imposed by society rather than genes is "a typical half-truth...