Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teacher attitudes, and pushes for change which Harvard needs. The chance to think about and discuss alternate approachs to current intellectual and social issues allows women the opportunity to develop ideas which they later introduce in class discussions, broadening the exposure of all Harvard-Radcliffe men and women to feminist ideas...
Firstly, his information on Lu Hsiu-lien is flawed. The publishing company (Pioneer Publishing House) for feminist literature that she established is still in business, contrary to Jablin's statement that it was closed by the government. The telephone hot-line for women ("Pao Hu Nin") set up by Lu does not now exist, but in light of Jablin's mistake on the publishing company it seems unlikely that the government curtailed its operation, especially since in was well-received by the public. Jablin's remark about "underground" opposition activities by Lu is cryptic if not misleading. Certainly...
...body count. Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life. Her soul on ice, Marilyn French sounded like a feminist Eldridge Cleaver...
Paradoxically, much of the dialogue works. French has a knack for orchestrating voices. Even they grow stale, how ever, as the conversations between Victor and Dolores come to follow a predictable cycle: Scotch drinking, lovemaking, remembrances of painful pasts and talk that adds up to a feminist equivalent of Soviet socialist realism. Yet The Bleeding Heart is not just a popular novel for the female market. Attentive male readers will discover why so many wom en are now saying "Yes, yes" when there's "No, no" in their eyes...
...book on the study. Women Confined, just published in Britain, Oakley presents what amounts to the first feminist theory of postnatal blues. The recipe for the depression, she says, is to create an unrealistic myth about motherhood, offer unfeeling medical care, and then set the new mother down in a social system that offers her little support for her new child and new role. Oakley, the mother of three, thinks childbirth is so oversold as woman's greatest achievement that women believe something is wrong with them if they have ambivalent feelings after giving birth. Says she: "The medical...