Bookforum Omnivore - Emergent Genderscapes

This is a cool collection of links on gender, feminism, culture, and of course another examination of how modern society is driving maleness to extinction (or some such crap).

Wheat from the chaff, my friends. . . .


Emergent genderscapes
DEC 17 2012 

1:00PM

• Linda C. McClain (BU): Nature, Culture, and Social Engineering: Reflections on Evolution and Equality. 
• Olle Folke (Columbia) and Johanna Karin Rickne (IFN): Female Representation but Male Rule? Party Competition and the Political Glass Ceiling. 
• From Transhumanity, Vladimir Frolov on feminism and beta male losers; and Hank Pellissier on ova-fusion and the elimination of the male. 
• Unmaking a difference: Is gender neutrality the new stereotype? Robin Phillips wonders. 
• Women, please stop having affairs with older, more powerful men.
• Let's give chivalry another chance: It's been unfairly maligned as sexist, but women and men alike would benefit from bringing it back. 
• Rob Okun is mad as hell at conventional manhood. 
• Kisses and hugs in the office: How the once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse. 
• Down and dirty: Do men and women perceive cleanliness differently? 
• Kay S. Hymowitz on the plight of the alpha female: Women remain scarce in the most elite positions — and it’s by choice. 
• Kathoey “in trend”: Dredge Byung'chu Kang on emergent genderscapes, national anxieties and the re-signification of male-bodied effeminacy in Thailand. 
• Here are 5 reasons modern life is driving manliness to extinction.