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Duke University historian William Chafe suggested that the women's movement has been split over its tactics. While some women's groups hope to advance the status of all women through non-hierarchical organizations which emphasize participatory democracy, others, he said, have sought individual gains over that of the whole group...
...Chafe went on to endorse the more inclusive of the two factions, saying "the progress made underlines the importance of the collectivist remedies...
While some segments of the middle class chafe under their restrictions, the kingdom's religious leaders constantly call for closer adherence to puritanical Islamic rules. Many of their strictures are directed at women. One recent decree banned them from riding alone in taxis or hotel limousines. In Riyadh and Jidda, black-robed women must board buses through the back door and sit separately from men. In some parts of the kingdom, a husband can divorce a wife simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times...
...commentary piece advocating the "isolation" of AIDS carriers, Jeff Wise writes that "no society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of defency." Yet Mr. Wise's comments belie this sentiment. He is eager to ignore the faces of AIDS in his zealousness to ship AIDS carries to concentration camps--oops, I mean "special treatment centers...
Such legislation will not be passed tomorrow. No society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of jecency. But like our forefathers, we have no other options. When and if it becomes common to see friends die, when the fear our ancestors felt returns, our attitude will change...