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SOME in the media would even contend, justifiably, that the Silber people have it all backwards. The candidate prided himself on the bluntness of his message, the disingenuity with which he attacked such problems as crime (refusing to give a speech in Dorcester to "a bunch of crack addicts") and health care (disputing the need for lengthy and fruitless hospital stays for the elderly) and the feminist movement (blaming working women for leading to the disruption of family unity...
Although some critics contend that Silber couldnever bring liberals back into the fold, Rooseveltdiscounted any further internal strife that mightresult from his appointment as chair...
Chadwick, author of the recent book Women, Art and Society, and like-minded scholars argue that a work of art reflects the culture, the times and also the sex of its creator. They contend that a mostly white male heterosexual establishment has shaped the form and content as well as the critical evaluation of Western art, giving scant attention to female artists whose work may reflect a sensibility different from theirs. "The old belief held that a work of art was the same, no matter when or where or who looked at it," says Linda Nochlin, a Yale University...
...crux of women's existence, the researchers contend, is the sense of relationship, the interconnectedness of people. That notion challenges long- accepted theories of human psychological development. As set out by Freud and his largely male successors, healthy emotional growth is marked by a striving for autonomy. People who deviate from that pattern, as many women do, have often been considered immature, even psychologically ill -- victims, perhaps, of dependent personality disorder. But critics charge that that orthodox psychological dogma is based almost exclusively on studies of men. Ignoring women distorted the picture. The male voice, in effect, became the human...
...what the psychological consequences will be. Will these families be any different from the countless American households in which a father is missing through divorce or death? Many single mothers argue that the truly wanted child of a single mother is better off than a child who must contend with constant conflict between divorced or unhappily married parents. Jane Mattes, a New York City psychotherapist and director of Single Mothers by Choice, advises her fellow single mothers to "stress the positive" with their children and emphasize how loved they are. She tells how her son, age 10, once commented, "Wasn...