Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marilyn French, the feminist author of The Women's Room, said that her fellowship at GSAS was "a golden time" during which she gained writing skills that she would later use in her novels...
Women's studies "questions the masculinization of intellectual authority," said Catharine Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Rutgers University and a long-time feminist activist...
...what she intended to be a broad overview of the multiplicity of scholarship in the field, Stimpson touched upon, among others, the work of feminist literary critics, feminist anthropological theories and the critique of masculine approaches to science...
Amid bitter debate, a committee of feminist historians passed a grim resolution saying that "as feminist scholars we have a responsibility not to allow our scholarship to be used against the interests of women struggling for equity in our society." That wording would seem to say that truth must take a backseat to feminist interests, but supporters deny this interpretation. They point to an accompanying resolution that reads, "We believe that as scholars we may have many differing interpretations of the sources in women's history, and we reject the claims of anyone to be representing a 'true interpretation...
Though the Sears and California cases are obviously very different, both turn on the same question: Should feminists admit significant differences between the sexes? Traditionally, mainstream feminism has downplayed the importance of biological differences and has insisted that men and women be treated exactly alike by the law. Friedan and her allies deride this view, with its strained argument that hernias and pregnancies are somehow similar. Asks Friedan: "Why should the law treat us like male clones?" Similarly, Rosenberg argues that her feminist opponents minimize all the significant male-female differences and cultural influences that might explain the preponderance...