Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With such statements, the audience of about 100 in the Lamont Forum room was unwittingly drawn into one of the central debates of the feminist movement--one with damaging consequences to the ostensible purposes of the Take Back the Night events...
RAPE is a feminist issue--and its occurrence and tacit social acceptance in our society are directly reflected in stereotypical images of women. But leaders of Women Against Pornography (WAP), such as Dines-Levi, do a disservice to the feminist movement's goals of severing the connections between male violence and female sexuality...
Women lawyers today are boldly challenging the status quo. Last week more than a thousand people gathered in Oakland for the 20th National Conference on Women and the Law, where feminist scholars explored everything from marriage to murder. In school courses, articles and reading groups across the country, women are re-examining all aspects of the law, from teaching materials to fundamental principles. The aim: to uproot the sexism and inequality they feel are inherent in Western legal thought. "The law has been written with men in mind," explains Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami Law School. "Feminist...
When the scene switches to Ida's university at Castle Adamant, however, the show begins to lag. In playing the princess, Beth Ellen Salm has a most difficult job, which may explain why she falls so flat. As written, the would-be feminist princess sounds like a selfsatisfied prig, and Salm's portrayal reinforces that impression. When her assistant Lady Blanche (Linda Bielski) mocks Ida behind her back, the audience sympathizes. Lady Blanche, at least, keeps the audience awake by putting the orchestra to sleep with a song/philosophy lecture. Bielski, a professional actress, is easily the show's best female...
Women non-Government social science concentrators are more likely to rank 'more of a feminist perspective' as one of their top three attributes of a concentration than are women in Government. This suggests that some women might have chosen another concentration because of the substantive content of Government as taught at Harvard...