Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recall, the class had about 80 students (I was one of about a dozen men). Some of the students in the course had a deep personal commitment to the feminist movement, and were active in feminist politics on and off campus. They were interested in exploring feminist questions. My initial interest in the course was more academic: I wanted to learn more about a social movement which, like the civil rights movement, had had great success in mobilizing political activity in many different sectors of the political landscape...
Professor Klein's great accomplishment was in making us understand that in order to explain how the feminist movement developed, you must integrate the "academic" issues with the "personal" issues. She devoted much of the course to developing a general theoretical model of social movements. This is what I had expected to learn from the course, and she taught it well. What I had not expected, but what ultimately turned out to be the most rewarding educational experience I have ever had, was Professor Klein's exploration of the personal experiences which drove women (and men) from all parts...
...many freelancers approach getting published less as a job than as a spiritual quest. But last week a fledgling National Writers Union framed a constitution and elected officers from among 1,500 dues-paying members, including Novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Journalist Studs Terkel. Said President Andrea Eagan, a feminist writer: "Without top names we would be like a baseball union without Reggie Jackson...
DIED. Suzanne La Follette, 89, conservative journalist and founding editor of several magazines, including National Review; in Menlo Park, Calif. An early, ardent feminist, she revived the radical magazine the Freeman in 1930. Gradually departing from leftism, she revived the Freeman yet again in 1950, this time as the voice of the "nontotalitarian right." "I haven't moved," she once said of her views. "The world has moved to the left...
Julie L. Muss '85, another organizer, says the new organization would be different from these two groups because it would have no "political or feminist overtones...