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Premiere of a work for winds and solo viola by Mark Pevsner '76 in concert along with compositions by Hindemith and Berger. Lowell...
...group has received many letters like the one from Kentucky, and the second edition contains a lot of material they say was prompted by letters asking for information. "People treat us as if they'd known us for a long time," Berger says. "One letter came criticizing us--and rightly--for not having anything in any of our chapter about women who have their babies and have to give them up for adoption; but the tone of the letter was hurt, as if we were old friends who had let her down...
Because many of the areas the Bodies, Ourselves group deal with had never been fully explored by the people they refer to somewhat off-handedly as 'the' experts,' much of their research has to be done first-hand, through personal interviews and surveys. Berger describes putting together the chapter on aging that appears in the second edition. She sent out hundreds of questionnaires, she says, and she was amazed at the responses she received. Women between the ages of 20 and 40--women who are supposed to be at the height of their sexual activity--complained far more frequently...
...point represented is largely white and middle class. Rather than trying to change their own outlook to fit their audience--Ditzion points out that that would be difficult, since the experiences they relate are so personal--the group has chosen to help other women work from their own backgrounds. Berger has gotten involved more deeply than the others in helping a group of Hispanic women put together a translation of Our Bodies for the Spanish community. Since many of their experiences and problems are very different from those of a white middle class American, the collective wants to reach them...
...Berger seems a little more optimistic. While it's true there is less public attention paid now to feminism than there once was, she says, a lot of women are working quietly on changing society, working for equal opportunity laws and welfare rights for unmarried mothers. "Women have moved out into very committed smaller nuclei, organizing through the community in which they live, in health care, schools, and so forth," she says. "They're not as raucous as they used to be, they're not doing anything the media could really pick up on. But at least they're presenting...