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Joined by Professor of Education Carol Gilligan and Bina Agarwal, an economist from the University of Delhi and a former visiting professor in women's studies, the panel engaged in a broad-based discussion on the current state of the feminist movement...
Vindicating the Rights of Women--Panelists: writer Betty Friedan, historian Gerda Lerner, cultural critic Bell Hooks, psychoanalist Juliet Mitchell. Discussants: Carol Gilligan of the Graduate School of Education and Bina Agarwal, of Women's Studies, Harvard, and Economics, University of Delhi. Historical introduction by Susan Pederson, of the Harvard Department of History. Moderated by Ellen Fitzpatrick, of the Department of History, Harvard. Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden St. Call 495-9199 for information...
Poor proofreading further mars the interviews. Quotes are closed irregularly; it is often impossible to tell when the writers have finished speaking. In the mini-essay on Carol Maso, Pearlman maintains that the spirit of Kierkegaard must have jinxed her interview, because, as she rather ironically writes, she is "absolutely sure that he died in 1955." Kierkegaard died...
...Voice of One's Own reads like a sorority yearbook. Admittedly, the sorority is a distinguished one. Pearlman and Henderson had the good fortune to interview such luminaries as Amy Tan. Gloria Naylor, Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Godwin, Mona Simpson, Alice McDermott, M.F.K. Fischer and Louise Erdrich. They interviewed 28 women in all, striving, they explained, for a generational, regional and ethnic cross-section. Reading this book, however, we do not get the sense of the writers' differences. Pearlman and Henderson work entirely too hard to draw connections between the writers, and even harder to draw connections between themselves...
...Harvard, and both worked at Princeton from then until 1986. Thompson's wife, Carol, and associate dean of the Faculty, and Rudenstine's wife, Angelica Zander, are also close friends...