Word: genderization
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...Evelyn Hilary O'Rooley, the novel's bifocal, bivocal, bisexual narrator. Although E.H.O'R. can be anagrammed as HERO, the character is doubtful of its gender. Most accurately, (s)he is Miss Brophy's way of saying "I." It is a mock "I," however. As Miss Brophy notes in an aside: "I'm playing games, like a painter who includes in his picture a mirror in which he shows himself standing outside the picture painting...
...reason that the invert's sex behavior is not dictated by his anatomy is related to a remarkable finding of sex researchers: no one becomes fully male or female automatically. The diverse psychological components of masculinity and femininity?"gender role identity"?are learned. Gender is like language, says Johns Hopkins University Medical Psychologist John Money: "Genetics ordains only that language can develop, not whether it will be Nahuatl, Arabic or English...
...That deceit permanently estranges them, indurates her heart against all men and sets up Segment No. 2: her confrontation with Caine. Michael plays a reptilian charmer, the acknowledged sultan of the typing pool. Or he was until challenged by Calder-Marshall, who decides to wreak vengeance on the whole gender of womanizers by giving Caine "one in the eye for every girl in the building." But triumph leaves her a vulnerable pushover for her next boss, an eminent barrister (Scofield). He proves to be even more treacherous than Caine, a malevolent Machiavelli rather than merely a fun-loving Alfie...
...path to the Olympics been littered with so much angry controversy. From the moment Mexico City was named as the site, arguments raged over the possible effects of its 7,349-foot altitude on the athletes. Sex became a bitter issue when international sports federations started demanding a gender test of all female competitors, and some girls withdrew rather than submit to the embarrassment. A worldwide protest that threatened to close down the whole show forced the International Olympic Committee to reinstate its ban on segregated South Africa. All year long, black militants in the U.S. tried - and fortunately failed...
...title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all. However, anyone who has been to far-off, murky Venice-or just down to the local fag bar-will recognize Myra's true gender long before Vidal coyly pronounces the paradigm. And in all conscience it can be reported that the key to Myra's sexual-identity crisis is about as crucial as the sound track to a stag film...