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  • The Nizhny Novgorod Province had a hundred prominent families, which over the course of two centuries had intermarried and divorced, borrowed and lent, accepted and regretted, offended, defended, and dueled—while championing an array of conflicting positions that varied by generation, gender, and house.†   (source)
  • We ruled out blood type, gender, physical size, intelligence factors, genetic markers-nothing seemed to account for the negatives.†   (source)
  • The Court had repeatedly made clear, though, that the Constitution does not require that racial minorities and women actually serve on juries—it only forbids excluding jurors on the basis of race or gender.†   (source)
  • Oh, they got in on the beginning of the gender selection experiments.†   (source)
  • BIRTH NAME: DANIEL ALTAN WING
    AGE/GENDER: 15/M; PREY.†   (source)
  • Acreage and financing were facts as basic as name and gender in Zebulon County.†   (source)
  • Simple ones-like age, gender, birth order, weight, religion, marital status, number of children-and more complex accounts, like political views and religious affiliations.†   (source)
  • The two others have purple placards hung around their necks: Gender Treachery.†   (source)
  • Stereotypes of color, race, and gender are slowly disappearing.†   (source)
  • This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail.†   (source)
  • The quarantine had been near empty before; now it was overflowing with victims—every age, every gender.†   (source)
  • Immediately, the guards divided our group by gender.†   (source)
  • "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.†   (source)
  • It was what her dad always did for her mom on their anniversary, and don't think I don't see the gender roles here, that I don't get the hint.†   (source)
  • Their faces remind me of those visual puzzles that shift forms as you stare; sometimes Betty's face looks undeniably female and ten seconds later the sense of gender is gone and I think of her (him?) as Beta again.†   (source)
  • Mackenzie, I am neither male nor female, even though both genders are derived from my nature.†   (source)
  • This was his last ride as a fully equipped member of the male gender; the least I could do was give him a little fresh air.†   (source)
  • Gods have no gender.†   (source)
  • In the years after the Great War, the scene reminds us, ideas were judged on the basis of the class and gender of the person putting them forward.†   (source)
  • In Heaven there is complete equality of the sexes because all physical gender differences cease to exist.†   (source)
  • Before we climbed upstairs to the second floor, one teacher read out our names and divided us into groups according to our age and gender.†   (source)
  • This is the gender that invented the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • But my actual gender?†   (source)
  • The gender thing is a giveaway, though.†   (source)
  • The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.†   (source)
  • From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the targets of serial killings are usually connected by similarities in age, gender, race, or a combination of the three.†   (source)
  • But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies.†   (source)
  • Moon was proud of her as both a musician and a gender-busting pioneer.†   (source)
  • She wanted to be able to play pickup games of soccer with whoever was around, without regard to gender.†   (source)
  • Clary turned instant traitor against her gender.†   (source)
  • One is not "gender-specific," as they say these days (psychoactive substance abuse).†   (source)
  • Maybe I didn't remember the "right" way to interact with someone of the opposite gender, but I'm pretty sure Martin didn't, either.†   (source)
  • The dispatch had been filed from Everest via a coded radio message (to prevent competitors from scooping the Times) by a young correspondent named James Morris who, twenty years later, having earned considerable esteem as a writer, would famously change his gender to female and his Christian name to Jan. As Morris wrote four decades after the momentous climb in Coronation Everest: The First Ascent and the Scoop That Crowned the Queen, It is hard to imagine now the almost mystical delight with which the coincidence of the two happenings [the coronation and the Everest ascent] was greeted in Britain.†   (source)
  • He got his first clue as to their genders when he deduced that the huge ant in the heart of their underground lair was laying eggs, one every minute or so, which made it-her-a female.†   (source)
  • Nestor and Blanca gave the baby ridiculous nicknames that they decided were gender-neutral.†   (source)
  • It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions.†   (source)
  • The big gender difference with negative emotions is that women are more critical, and men are more likely to stonewall.†   (source)
  • You can't measure anything about them scientifically, although, of course, there are genetic differences between the genders.†   (source)
  • Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species.†   (source)
  • We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination.†   (source)
  • One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles—Men and Guys.†   (source)
  • Amartya Sen, the ebullient Nobel Prize-winning economist, has developed a gauge of gender inequality that is a striking reminder of the stakes involved.†   (source)
  • Ferraro made a soft clucking noise, as if he had intuited the problem and its gender; easing the chair into a reclining position was Ferraro's first step to finding a solution.†   (source)
  • Gage being drafted to make breakfast today is an example of the basics in non-gender-specific teamwork.†   (source)
  • A player's trivia-answering ability is presumably the only worthwhile factor to consider; race, gender, and age wouldn't seem to matter.†   (source)
  • Hannah, Nel, Eva, Sula were points of a cross—each one a choice for characters bound by gender and race.†   (source)
  • "I have this strong feeling, though, that it's not," she ventured, not sure if her hunch about the baby's gender 'was just a desperate wish.†   (source)
  • I got into the topic through my girlfriend—her name is Mia Johansson and she's a criminologist and gender studies scholar.†   (source)
  • On this particular evening she announced that a gender awareness class would be offered in the dining hall.†   (source)
  • It had been a long, hard time since I had put my trust in anybody whose gender started with an M. Maybe, in a different time ...I was thinking.†   (source)
  • More children, he told himself, the girl is not the only one, but Old Nan's tale of Genders children came back to him as well.†   (source)
  • He wrote his senior honors thesis on "gender inequality and depression," no doubt in part because the medical anthropologists he knew were all psychiatrists.†   (source)
  • An environment totally ruled by gender stereotypes and expectations, as pathetic as those who chose to inhabit it.†   (source)
  • We may find out the baby's gender.†   (source)
  • At Dinner Dad was outnumbered gender-wise, and hurting for a snort.†   (source)
  • To make up for your recent mistreatment at the hands of one of my gender.†   (source)
  • He believes April's "difficulty with the language" to be a reflection upon her intelligence, and probably her gender, if truth be known; John suffers behind a single-minded, simpleton view of a woman's purpose on this earth-to provide men certain unspeakable pleasures and to bear children†   (source)
  • I found I was enjoying it all immensely, and once I even caught myself reading aloud from a Talmud—it was the grammatical discussion of the gender of "derech," road, in the tractate Kiddushin— before Reb Saunders realized what I was doing and told me to stop, I wasn't allowed to use my eye yet, Danny would read the passage.†   (source)
  • I wasn't prepared for gender obsessions, race and class complexities, or the new-to-me idea that war and male leadership were part of human nature.†   (source)
  • I saw the baby's thick dark hair, her broad face, saw how her brother's features were held in hers in gender form.†   (source)
  • He also stands against procreation regulation, gender adjustment, chemical balancing, and the gun ban.†   (source)
  • Think, for example, of how you guys has now become a generic form of address: it is gender-, age-, and class-neutral, and decidedly informal.†   (source)
  • With this body of files we could sift and sort through the population of the district by gender, race, ethnicity, party affiliation, occupation.†   (source)
  • GENDER: Female†   (source)
  • "If they did, maybe girls like that," I pointed to the girl in front of us, who was wearing fake Uggs, a pink miniskirt, and a tight black sweater, "could grow out their leg hair to stay warm, and another gender inequity would be balanced, right?"†   (source)
  • Whether marriage was between any two people, whatever their gender!†   (source)
  • Those who had been briefed on its work referred to it only as the Minyan, for the unit was ten in number and exclusively male in gender.†   (source)
  • "I'd rather not say," I replied, hoping it would give me an edge of some kind, and now that I knew Bleys' gender: "If he had, I'd have answered him the same as I would Eric—'I'll think about it.†   (source)
  • If I want to change shape, or age, or gender, or species, I simply wish it to happen and—ka-bam!†   (source)
  • A profusion of colors that would have been gender-marked in other places.†   (source)
  • I saw all the features that would mark gender for non-Radchaai—never, to my annoyance and inconvenience, the same way in each place.†   (source)
  • Almost wishing the Radchaai language concerned itself with gender so I could use it wrongly and sound even more foreign.†   (source)
  • My sisters are not venomous, but whether that's due to gender or a random chance...who knows?†   (source)
  • They strike me as polemical, as angry indictments of Afghan gender roles.†   (source)
  • The cheaper option is to buy "straight run" birds of unknown gender.†   (source)
  • If you're upset about gender confusion, Leah ....," I said.†   (source)
  • The other indent was morbidly obese, and I couldn't be sure of the person's gender.†   (source)
  • Other than that, they melted into the gender-subdivided world of their peers.†   (source)
  • I'm gender fluid and transgender, idiot.†   (source)
  • Not all of those Gender Traitors end up on the Wall.†   (source)
  • Gender-fluid people are hardly a new thing, Magnus.†   (source)
  • And my gender hasn't changed, thanks for asking.†   (source)
  • She thought that if she became an einherji, she'd be stuck in one gender forever.†   (source)
  • I used to wonder how Radchaai reproduced, if they were all the same gender.†   (source)
  • As long as you don't ask me to represent every gender-fluid person for you, okay?†   (source)
  • Hoping as I spoke that it was a mixed-gender group, as my sentence indicated.†   (source)
  • "A gender ...whatever you said," Thor amended.†   (source)
  • I could find a way to keep avoiding referring to the barkeep's gender.†   (source)
  • What gender had she assigned to the Lord of the Radch?†   (source)
  • At first I wondered if it had just been a throwaway comment—a non-gender-specific dude.†   (source)
  • The gender thing wasn't what surprised me.†   (source)
  • The society she lived in professed at the same time to believe gender was insignificant.†   (source)
  • I'd been stuck in one gender my whole life.†   (source)
  • I'm going to fix this chariot so our gender argr bride can use it tomorrow.†   (source)
  • We could go look for Genders children, I suppose.†   (source)
  • Their line these days is that great art transcends gender.†   (source)
  • He could tell nothing about it—not age or gender or even species.†   (source)
  • She said to me, "Gender is not an issue in this house."†   (source)
  • I'd recently noticed that she had become a staunch defender of her gender.†   (source)
  • elda-a gender-neutral honorific of great praise Eyddr eyreya onr!†   (source)
  • Still, many modern-minded Muslims are pushing for greater gender equality.†   (source)
  • And they responded perfectly well to neutral gender terms such as "it."†   (source)
  • It's not often that a researcher can establish roles along gender lines so clearly.†   (source)
  • Non-gender-specific teamwork, he thought.†   (source)
  • All machines have genders, and that BMW was a royal "she."†   (source)
  • There aren't any flashing gender signs in urine, but there are things to look for.†   (source)
  • But there isn't any gender difference when it comes to contempt.†   (source)
  • It's none of your business which gender her partner is or how they conduct their sexual relations.†   (source)
  • They have five, seven, or nine legs, depending on which gender they are, right, Wanda?†   (source)
  • What it means is that our attitudes toward things like race or gender operate on two levels.†   (source)
  • But most of all you're sexual—you like sex and you don't care about what gender.†   (source)
  • "Not bad for a collection of gender-impaired public servants," Claire agreed.†   (source)
  • These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.†   (source)
  • In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.†   (source)
  • In this sense there is a sort of gender perspective to my thesis.†   (source)
  • Every year, at least another 2 million girls worldwide disappear because of gender discrimination.†   (source)
  • Women leaders were then judged by gender-neutral standards.†   (source)
  • Both offices would press to make gender-based violence a diplomatic priority.†   (source)
  • No one knew Helba's true sex, for Helba's was the habit of alternating gender with each incarnation.†   (source)
  • Gender, sexual orientation, height, colour of skin and eyes — it's all on order, it can all be done or redone.†   (source)
  • My other brothers were salaried people and so were considered in the same way as city folk—one child only, regardless of gender.†   (source)
  • That Liberian refugee and a white southerner might seem to have little in common if categorized according to race and place of origin, but they might share gender, religion, their identity as single parents, and most powerfully, a concern for the safety of their immediate environment.†   (source)
  • We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but also a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, faith, social involvement, and philosophical inclination.†   (source)
  • The camp grew so large that the controllers staggered our schedules, so we ate by color and gender—and even then, it was still a tight squeeze fitting everyone at the tables.†   (source)
  • But she began to find him alarming: He talked as if they were engaged, he knew the number and gender of their children.†   (source)
  • Having shed the human imperfection of gender along with the earthly pull of sexual temptation, Mal'akh had become like Ouranos, Attis, Sporus, and the great castrati magicians of Arthurian legend.†   (source)
  • We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.†   (source)
  • An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider.†   (source)
  • The school's strictly enforced dress code required that all student avatars be human, and of the same gender and age as the student.†   (source)
  • Rather, Ban-ford's demise figures the sexual tensions and gender-role confusion of modern society as Lawrence sees it, a world in which the essential qualities of men and women have been lost in the demands of technology and the excessive emphasis on intellect over instinct.†   (source)
  • None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.†   (source)
  • Darley, the narrator of the first and fourth volumes, tells us that there are at least five genders (although he leaves specifying them to our imaginations) in Alexandria, then shows them to us at full throttle.†   (source)
  • A few years later, when she started attending school online, her mother lied about her daughter's race and gender on the application.†   (source)
  • They were all required to use the same hulking male avatar (regardless of the operator's true gender), with close-cropped dark hair and facial features left at the system default settings.†   (source)
  • Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn't mark gender in any way.†   (source)
  • Since we weren't speaking Radchaai I had to take gender into account—Strigan's language required it.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said at last, "I still don't trust an argr to do this job—" "A gender-fluid person," Alex corrected.†   (source)
  • It didn't help that cues meant to distinguish gender changed from place to place, sometimes radically, and rarely made much sense to me.†   (source)
  • She laughed, short and bitter—whether because I'd chosen the wrong gender for the pronoun, or something else, I wasn't certain.†   (source)
  • His wardrobe wasn't gender specific.†   (source)
  • Change gender by force of will?†   (source)
  • "The kind of place," I said, still safely in linguistic territory that needed no gender marking, "that will rent me a sledge and sell me a hypothermia kit.†   (source)
  • Jen Shinnan and her cousin both spoke Radchaai, so there was no need to translate, nor any anxiety over gender or status or anything else that would have been essential in Tanmind or Orsian.†   (source)
  • A huge percentage of the homeless teens I'd met had been assigned one gender at birth but identified as another, or they felt like the whole boy/girl binary didn't apply to them.†   (source)
  • Like my parent, I'm gender fluid.†   (source)
  • The goat-killer's loose black clothes and metal war helmet made it impossible to guess his or her gender, but I decided to keep thinking of him as male for now.†   (source)
  • She's gender fluid.†   (source)
  • Historians have often struggled to deal with women who do not respect gender distinctions, and nowhere is that distinction more sharply drawn than in the question of armed combat.†   (source)
  • All genders are equal.†   (source)
  • If you term it as gender.†   (source)
  • At the time, the story was not as touching to me as it is now, but I suppose this was a function of my age and gender.†   (source)
  • Writer's a word without gender.†   (source)
  • It's so exclusive it has no gender.†   (source)
  • They have three different genders.†   (source)
  • She was certainly better looking than many of the prisoners who had been born to our gender, but close quarters revealed some of her more masculine qualities.†   (source)
  • A fantasy in cyberspace and a way of seeing the other side and a settling of differences that have less to do with gender than with difference itself, all argument, all conflict programmed out.†   (source)
  • Transsexual—Originally denned as people who had undergone hormonal or surgical intervention to make a physical transition from one gender to another, but now applied more vaguely.†   (source)
  • The key to measuring the Weakest Link voting data is to tease out a contestant's playing ability from his race, gender, and age.†   (source)
  • "All genders?" whispered Nudge.†   (source)
  • "Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery," she says.†   (source)
  • Score one for gender over race.†   (source)
  • But gender specific or not, I kind of liked the idea of searching for something you'd lost or needed.†   (source)
  • Rachel and Jeremy kept a low profile, moving around the edges of the crowd, as Rachel showed him the paintings of various members of the Lawson family who shared a striking resemblance not only from one generation to the next but, strangely, across genders as well.†   (source)
  • Impolite terms, used intramurally, were meant as philosophical rebukes to the misplaced preoccupations of those who believed in "identity politics," in the idea that all members of an oppressed minority were equally oppressed, which all too conveniently obscured the fact that there were real differences in the "shaftedness," also sometimes called the "degrees of hose-edness," that people of the same race or gender suffered.†   (source)
  • So they'll bring to bear not only understanding the words, but looking for what we call paralin-guistic cues, things like, What is the gender of the voice?†   (source)
  • They'd gone back to gender groups.†   (source)
  • The hearings left Thomas dazed and stumbling into an afterlife of bizarre duality: as both the most powerful black man in America and a walking, grimacing Rorschach on wrenching issues of race and gender.†   (source)
  • The ECLS measured the students' academic performance and gathered typical survey information about each child: his or her race, gender, family structure, socioeconomic status, the level of his or her parents' education, and so on.†   (source)
  • drajl-spawn of maggots nar-a gender-neutral title of great respect Synopsis ofEragon , Book One of Inheritance Eragon-a fifteen-year-old farmboy-is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine.†   (source)
  • Intersexual—A term adopted for people born with genitalia neither male nor female, as part of a movement to prevent surgical alteration to a gender arbitrarily decided by a doctor.†   (source)
  • Rob talks excitedly about biology-his probable major-and how it's okay that he can't get into Biology and Gender, a hot-button course at Brown, because he can get into Marine Biology, one of his passions.†   (source)
  • The data, covering more than sixteen million births, included standard items such as name, gender, race, birthweight, and the parents' marital status, as well as more telling factors about the parents: their zip code (which indicates socioeconomic status and a neighborhood's racial composition), their means of paying the hospital bill (again, an economic indicator), and their level of education.†   (source)
  • The problem arises when the additional information of gender and race is factored into a decision about an individual patient.†   (source)
  • She cursed her gender.†   (source)
  • Besides these important ethnic influences, California's leading-edge culture entails a tolerance for gender diversity that has been well ahead of most of America for at least two generations.†   (source)
  • Music Research, a California-based firm, sent Kenna's CD to twelve hundred people preselected by age, gender, and ethnicity.†   (source)
  • Linguist Dennis Baron has studied the gender issue in language and says that feminism has also had its impact on which words women choose to use or not to use.†   (source)
  • We all have a strong prior association between a first name like John and the male gender, or a name like Lisa and things female.†   (source)
  • They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.†   (source)
  • What Ayres was trying to do was zero in on a very specific question: All other things being absolutely equal, how does skin color or gender affect the price that a salesman in a car dealership offers?†   (source)
  • Almost halfway around the world, a country very different from China is also emerging as a model on gender issues.†   (source)
  • "Even obvious synthetic speech, like Baldi's," Nass said, "will be assigned a gender, will be assigned an emotion, an accent, a location in the country, a personality—the entire range of things that we do when we hear a human voice.†   (source)
  • Not long ago, researchers who analyzed the data from four large research studies that had followed thousands of people from birth to adulthood calculated that when corrected for such variables as age and gender and weight, an inch of height is worth $789 a year in salary.†   (source)
  • Gender and race are not irrelevant considerations when it comes to heart problems; blacks have a different overall risk profile than whites, and women tend to have heart attacks much later in life than men.†   (source)
  • Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.†   (source)
  • As Stephen Lewis, the former UN ambassador for AIDS, puts it: "Gender inequality is driving the pandemic.†   (source)
  • More broadly, Sri Lanka invests in health and education generally, and pays particular attention to gender equality.†   (source)
  • These salesmen may well have a strong conscious commitment to racial and gender equality, and they would probably insist, up and down, that they were quoting prices based on the most sophisticated reading of their customers' character.†   (source)
  • That's an exaggeration, but it underscores a central reality: AIDS is often a disease of gender inequality.†   (source)
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