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After you walk out of Jasmine Sola with that ultra-risqué outfit, jump across Brattle St. to a quaint yellow eighteenth-century house for a class that will make your hips looser than a drunkard’s tongue. Home to a variety of academic and non-academic courses, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s Seyyide (also of Fred Astaire Studios) teaches “ancient movements to ancient rhythms.” Each class is capped at sixteen students to ensure that you get the most out of your belly dancing experience. Prices...
...first cause to encounter knee-jerk resistance. For example, while it is clearly wrong to oppress women—and always has been wrong—this has only recently become the consensus. In response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Taylor published the dismissive satire A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, sneering that the arguments for women’s rights were also applicable to animals and that this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft’s position. Taylor’s conclusion...
PETA and other animal rights advocates represent an analogous challenge to the twenty-first century’s status quo. Most of eighteenth-century society joined Taylor in smirking at Wollstonecraft’s folly, but some people dared to question the prevailing view that women did not deserve rights. Today, the animal liberation movement follows in the path of Wollstonecraft and other reformers, and PETA will tirelessly endeavor to persuade more and more people to put aside prejudice and dare to question the oppression of animals...
...became honorary curator of Eighteenth-Century English literature in the Harvard University Library...
...representing the nation as a public servant or by receiving taxpayer-funded public education is an affront to French values. One need not necessarily share those values in order to concede that France is entitled to protect them. Admittedly, this policy is not only about France’s eighteenth-century republican ideals, but also about the contemporary challenges to those ideals. While the law’s ultimate purpose is to safeguard secularism, its immediate result will be to force adolescent girls who insist on wearing a headscarf in school to give up free public education...