Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zachary, a Currier House resident, says his mother has opened new doors for women throughout her career as a top attorney and Republican party activist. "She's not a heavy equal rights supporter, not a rah-rah feminist, but she has taken pride as a woman leader," he says. "She's has always been very excited about women's leadership, and has tried to help the role of women in leadership and important positions...
...Feminist comedian Kate Clinton takes over Sanders Theater this Saturday with a concert to benefit the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Clinton, who has sold out shows at Boston's Club Cabaret and at the Great American Music Hall, is known for her whyscracks and political satire...
Though she works to make people laugh, Clinton says she also wants her audience to go home and think about what she has said. She typically attacks national and local political situations from a feminist point of view...
Bingham does not deny the role. In fact, she relishes it. From a perspective perhaps best described as that of a millionaire Marxist-feminist, she views the Bingham dynasty, the state of Kentucky, the nation and the entire male-dominated world as mired in class conflicts, exploitation, racism and sexism. There is no denying that Bingham puts her money where her mouth is: she has donated $10 million to the Kentucky Foundation for Women. But after Passion and Prejudice, she will probably be remembered for putting her mouth where her money...
...beyond mobilizing around single issues such as campus security, Harvard felt the stirrings of more long-term feminist activism as a Women's Alliance formed to unite women's students groups on campus. The founders of the Women's Alliance have an issue--the lack of women on Harvard's faculty--but they say that the group will formulate its agenda around the broad spectrum of campus women's issues...