Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founder of Eating Problems Outreach Marsha E. Rorty '85 said that she has seen figures which say that as many as 50 percent of all women engage in some sort of bulemic behavior, and that 10 to 20 percent of female college students have some sort of relatively severe eating disorders...
POLITICAL SCIENTIST Ethel Klein's first book goes a long way towards proving several commonly held beliefs about women's political behavior. Her comparisons of the presidential elections since the Nixon/McGovern race show a sometimes small but statistically significant difference in the way women and men choose candidates and parties and rank issues. Gender Politics, however, may be more important for the future of the Women's Movement for what it says about the relationship between group consciousness and mass political action...
KLEIN has made an obvious effort to legitimize the feminist politics genre in the minds of mainstream political scientists. To a literature which has consisted mostly of fiction and pop social science works on women's political behavior--ranging from Bella Abzug's faulty prediction of how women would bring Reagan defeat in November to Gloria Steinem's telling collection of essays describing her personal encounters with sexism, discrimination and feminism--the former Harvard professor adds a quantitative and historically supported thesis about the genesis of feminist politics. She has produced perhaps the first unabashedly academic treatise on the often...
These well-intentioned attempts to legitimize the topic, however, have carried a price. The statistical evidence she uses to support popular feminist views of a women's vote may bring the study of women's political behavior into the circle of legitimate research topics, but it makes for convoluted writing at times...
...precise shape and behavior of the comet will give scientists insights into an array of physics problems, particularly some of the interactions between the sun and the earth. The release is part of a study of the magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic bubble that surrounds the earth; of the solar wind, the stream of supersonic particles that blows from the sun out to the planets; and of the bow-shock region, which lies between them. Aware of the comet's seasonal significance, NASA, one of the mission's main participants, has only too happily dubbed the performance the "Christmas...