Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer deigns to allow that, "If students wish to study feminist 'thought' that's fine. It's good for a laugh." "Pitting feminist classics against genuine classics," he continues, "is like pitting yipping pups against lions...
...four represent the range of prototypical feminine roles--mother, prostitute, feminist activist, and manic depressive. Consequently, the actresses make their most striking impressions as individuals in an ensemble rather than as an undifferentiated group...
Dusa (Mira Sorvino) is a mod mom who eulogizes the virtues of motherhood. By playing Dusa with false sincerity, Sorvino does not make her a credible character. The fourth woman, Fish (Heather Gunn), is a journalist-activist-feminist and the most ideologically optimistic woman of the bunch--often hopeful to the point of idiocy. Gunn's overstudied performance does little to help us sympathize with...
Lerner's objections focus on the central course of the Women's Studies concentration, "Classics of Feminist Theory." The only works classic to Lerner are those written by Western men. If by classical what Lerner means is those works traditionally studied by white men in Europe and in the United States, he is right. Until recently, texts written by women have not been studied in those communities, nor has the work of the majority of the world's population. It is a significant step that universities in the United States are beginning to recognize the limits of their traditional range...
Lerner fails to support the fundamental premise of his argument: that Women's Studies is not a legitimate discipline. Instead, he limits himself to arguing that feminist texts are not "classics." And by his definitions, Lerner deprives Harvard of many legitimate disciplines which constitue the Universityh's intellectual wealth...