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Wed Sep 3

• Amazon.com: Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back: Norah Vincent: Books

Mon Sep 1

• Genderosity

Sun Aug 31

• Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender?: As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? "Objectiv e" descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships. How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and what will that mean for us as human users?

Thu Aug 28

• Intersexuality Page: A very interesting first person account of an intersexed person

Wed Aug 27

• Jana Marcus Photography

Tue Aug 26

• Word Salad's Poetry Contest
• Building Identity While Managing Disadvantage: Peruvian Transgender Issue: 2008/07 - Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Working Paper No 310, Author: G. Campuzano
• Sarah Churchwell: How to be a real man ? and a jerk - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

Mon Aug 25

• In India, New Opportunities for Women Draw Anger and Abuse From Men - washingtonpost .com: For India's middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men. But a powerful male backlash has accompanied the women's revolution, an upwelling of resentment that has expressed itself in sexual violence and harassment.

Sun Aug 24

• Gender Disidentificat ion: The Perils of the Post-Gender Condition - Cris Mayo, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1999): "As we try to bring poststructural concerns about identity into our teaching we run the risk of encountering students who, whether through liberal individualism or postfeminism feel that the old problems of identity are no longer theirs. As one colleague...us ed to say, "I spend the first half of the term teaching them that they are women and the second half of the term deconstructing that identity." ; Attempting to deconstruct identity without first putting identity in place runs the risk of reinstalling liberal individualism when students ... refuse to consider themselves part of a category that describes their social identity.... To refuse to identify with a category does not change how they are potentially perceived by others. Ignoring the social aspects of identity does open "disident ification" ; to the charge of false consciousness. ... [But] it may be that disidentificat ion is the beginning of critically refiguring one's relationship to one's identity." ;

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