"Straightlaced: How Gender Got Us All Tied Up" Continues LVC's Colloquium Film Series on Nov. 3

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ANNVILLE, PA (10/24/2014)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College's Gender Colloquium Series will present the film "Straightlaced: How Gender Got Us All Tied Up" Monday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. at Annville's Allen Theatre. Discussion with filmmaker and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Debra Chasnoff will follow immediately after the film. Admission is $3 for the public, $1 for non-LVC students, and free for LVC students with student ID.

The film will pull you into the problems raised by society. Through the lives of these teens and young adults, you will challenge your thoughts with its powerful story. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses many ideas of conception of masculinity and femininity of the Generation Z.

Gender is a year-long integrated series of keynote presentations, guest speakers, films, and academic courses. Gender actively and passively shapes our shared destinies. More than an idea, its practice and performance unfold within the constellations of biology and culture, bodies and institutions. In the face of powerful social conventions and the culturally constructed binaries of "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," the complexities of gender challenge us to think beyond the genus, to reach beyond the type and category, and to step into the spectrum of being and becoming. For more information, visit: http://www.lvc.edu/colloquium.