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...lift every woman out of the false consciousness that is life in the patriarchy. The play suggests that everyone with a vagina will love her vagina if given the chance—and if she doesn’t, it must be due to patriarchal oppression and/or sexual assault. But false consciousness is inherently condescending. It tells many women—perhaps even most women—that their way of living and thinking and presenting themselves as women is inauthentic. The paternalistic implication is that Ensler knows what these women really think and really want, and if they listen...
...space away from men in order to establish their own identities free from sexist oppression. However, as any contemporary critic would tell you, patriarchy is not just about the physical presence of men but about the attitudes and assumptions that devalue femininities, marginalized masculinities and women. Making sexual assault and domestic violence into a “women victims, men batterers/rapists” binary does not reflect the complexity of women’s experiences. Issues like domestic violence and sexual assault may disproportionately affect heterosexual women, but the existence of same-sex domestic violence in lesbian communities proves...
...seemingly-routine appointment by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 drew strong words from student critics of the College’s sexual assault policy last week, evidence of the tense climate that characterizes the debate over that policy’s future...
...board of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) wrote to Lewis last Friday, expressing concern over the appointment of Julia G. Fox to replace Karen E. Avery ’87, an outgoing assistant dean of the College who handled issues of sexual assault...
...letter stated that the “unilateral” appointment of Fox would “undermine” changes that the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH), or the Leaning Committee, may propose in its recommendations this spring...