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Invoking the Goddesses of Yoga (audio; Tami Simon speaks with Sally Kempton on Insights at the Edge; 2012)
An intelligent invitation to develop a relationship with various aspects of the divine feminine.
http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/invoking-the-goddesses-of-yoga/
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The World: On Gender Relations in India
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The second presidential debate, Gawker’s outing of Reddit user Violentacrez, and the dangers of playground monkey bars, on this week’s DoubleX Gabfest. - Slate Magazine
Become a fan of DoubleX on Facebook. Leave us love letters and see what other listeners are saying about the Gabfest. Listen to the DoubleX Gabfest with this audio player, or by using one of the other options below: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX…
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JENNIFER ROBERTSON: Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
(MIT Comparative Media Studies Podcast 6, March 2009)
Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan
In humans, gender—femininity, masculinity—is an array of performed behaviors, from dressing in certain clothes to walking and talking in certain ways. These behaviors are both socially and historically shaped, but are also contingent upon many situational influences, including individual choices. Female and male bodies alike can perform a variety of femininities and masculinities. What can human gender(ed) practices and performances tell us about how humanoid robots are gendered, and vice versa? Robertson explored and interrogated the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace. She showed that Japanese roboticists assign gender to their creations based on rigid assumptions about female and male sex and gender roles. Thus, humanoid robots can productively be understood as the vanguard of a "posthuman sexism," and are being developed in a socio-political climate of reactionary conservatism.
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2009/03/podcast_gendering_robots_posth.php#more
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Lexicon Valley: What it means for a language to have grammatical gender. - Slate Magazine
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 8: When Nouns Grew Genitals Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Languages all across the world have what’s called grammatical gender, which means simply that nouns get divvied up into different categories or “classes.” Sometimes those…
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Movie Interview - Bill Duke Talks ‘Dark Girls’ : NPR
Dark Girls, a documentary about color prejudice among African-Americans, has become a hit on the film festival circuit. Actor-director Bill Duke says discrimination by light-skinned blacks toward dark-skinned ones is not a thing of the past.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/148921156/many-colors-of-prejudice-are-revealed-in-dark-girls
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The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality
‘Victorian’ came in the twentieth century to stand for sexual repression and social convention. Personal life was governed by complex and rigid rules of behaviour. Like other aspects of Victorian culture this began to break down in the fin-de-siécle. Yet recent research, discussed in this lecture, has undermined this rather simplistic picture and begun to explore some of the contradictions and complexities of Victorian attitudes to marriage and sexuality. The place of women in Victorian culture was by no means as passive or subordinate as conventional images of the era suggest.
This lecture by Professor Richard J Evans, FBA is part of the series The Victorians: Culture and Experience in Britain, Europe and the World 1815-1914
More info: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-gender-and-sexuality
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Writing Excuses
Pyr editor Lou Anders has an interesting description of Hollywood formulas, and a nice description of Dervish House for the Audible pick.
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Beyond Belief 1 (2006): Session 3
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