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Wireless ethernet access is already available at several locations across campus, including Lamont and Hilles libraries, Loker Commons and Maxwell-Dworkin...
...address sponsored in part by the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, Dworkin, easily the most vociferous and controversial feminist author and thinker in America today, outlined why the work of the women’s movement is still unfinished...
...abuses leveled against women, Dworkin says she has endured nearly all of them: rape, prostitution, battery. Now 55, she has recently published her thirteenth book, a memoir that describes how she went from being jailed for protesting the Vietnam War to launching a crusade against pornography. It is the latter that earned Dworkin and her collaborator, legal scholar Catherine MacKinnon, the most infamy: The civil ordinances in which they defined pornography as an actionable violation of women’s civil rights passed in some cities but were subsequently shot down on First Amendment grounds...
...Schlesinger Library’s recent acquisition of Dworkin’s papers was unusual since that library, which customarily receives donations of manuscripts, paid an undisclosed fee for the artifacts. “Radcliffe wanted my papers before they merged with Harvard,” Dworkin told the Boston Globe. “It was like their last bad act...to show Harvard what they thought of Harvard...
...campus for the speech and book signing, she was less pointed, though no less fiery. “The library may be the quietest place that women ever go, but it’s also probably the most important,” Dworkin told the audience. “When I come to a library like the Schlesinger, I think about intellectual independence for women and girls...