Imagine what it must be like for Caster Semenya, the top South African female runner who was in the news recently because her sex has recently been challenged. By “sex” I am not referring to her sexuality, but to the physical, biological characteristics that determine whether one is male or female. That basically comes down [...]
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Caster Semenya: When Gender is Not Sex
October 23rd, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 1 Comment · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Gender, News, Postmodernism, Uncategorized
Tags:Caster Semenya·Cultural Evolution·Culture·feminine·Gender·Herculine Barbin·hermaphrodite·intersex·Kaate Bornstein·masculine·Michel Foucault·sex identity·sports
How to Be a Man
May 5th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 12 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Gender, News, Pop Culture
What does it mean to be a man? Strong and brave? Sensitive and sweet? Unfortunately, this is a question that gets little attention in the public sphere today, leaving so many of us gentlemen unenlightened. In my experience, growing up in a solidly progressive area of the US (the Pacific Northwest) during the 80s and [...]
Tags:David Granger·esquire magazine·Gender·global crisis·Joel Pitney·masculinity·men·Postmodernism·scandinavia
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