• gender
• theorizing

A very persuasive indictment of the Deborah Tannen/John Gray approach to women's and men's "communication" with each other. (h/t to Elizabeth Thorpe)

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• gender
• tests

A test to determine if you have a girl brain or a boy brain. I scored an 18, which means I have a seriously girl brain (I wonder how much these correlate with Meyers-Briggs results, since I'm an INFJ, which is much more common among women than men).

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• classical rhetoric
• gender

I'm still pondering Josh Gunn's and Chuck Morris' talks on "voice" from the Wisconsin Public Address conference. "The Gender of Sound" is a very cool essay by Anne Carson, a Canadian classics professor and poet, in her 1995 book Glass, Irony, and God. Here's how it starts: "It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane, male or female, good, evil, trustworthy, depressive, marriageable, moribund, likely or unlikely to make war on us, little better than animals, inspired by God. These judgments happen fast and can be brutal.

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• campaign rhetoric 2008
• gender
• race

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• gender
• religion

Apropos of our recent conversations regarding gender in the Middle East, see this story about Hussein Rabei:

Formerly known as Zaineb, 33-year-old Rabei was raised as a girl after being born with genitalia that more closely resembled a vagina than a penis. Arab culture and its rigid views on gender meant doctors ignored growing signs that Rabei may in fact be male, he said.

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