The two National members dissented on an interpretation of gender equality in the committee's next report.
Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World considers a woman artist who took on male avatars in her lifetime: like Smith, Hustvedt addresses society's interpretation of gender in a sophisticated and compelling narrative.
But in 2014, a time when most of us are comfortable wearing trousers, watching a parade of skinny, overwhelmingly white young women in extortionately priced outfits attempting to channel a watered-down interpretation of gender equality does not at first glance feel like feminism to me – and I say that as a former Vogue intern and lover of Chanel.
The narrative of feminist interpretation of gender relations most commonly offered points to universalizing claims made on behalf of women during the so-called "second wave" of the feminist movement in the late 1960's and 1970's in Western countries.
"Passing" as the opposite sex is still the order of the day, presumably because the human imagination cannot accommodate a multi-determined, fluid, and complex interpretation of gender.
Kessler & McKenna's studies of gender attribution based on various combinations of "conflicting" features found that male-associated traits are weighed far more heavily in interpretation of gender than female-associated traits.
It is extremely unsafe for a trans man to walk into the women's bathroom or locker room, which makes the Obama Administrations interpretation of gender identity and Title IX so significant.
Third-wave feminists often focus on "micro-politics" and challenge the second wave's paradigm as to what is, or is not, good for women, and tend to use a post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality.
The sample size also limits any interpretation of gender effects.
