Many things in our lives are tied to age markers. Graduations, driving, starting school, working, marriage, retirement. We all take measures of one sort or another to look like or separate ourselves from the markers that people use to recognize our chronological age. We try to act our age or belie our age, to speed … Continue reading Age Matters
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Gender and the Patriarchy
Chapter 3 in Difference Matters is all about gender. It covers a lot of territory, but starts by trying to distinguish gender from sex. What is your sex? What is your gender? Do you think of them as two different ways to say the same thing about yourself Although many people use the terms interchangeably, gender … Continue reading Gender and the Patriarchy
