Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feminist buried under mounds of laundry, Judith hopes solving the murder will put a little intellectual excitement back into her life and perhaps help her regain her old job as a newspaper reporter. She is occasionally scared by her own boldness, always quick-witted in stating her emotional needs and her findings as a self- appointed crimebuster. Indeed, it is a measure of Compromising Positions' intelligence that the big speech on malefemale relations falls to Edward Herrmann, playing her husband. Angrily but without self-pity, he makes the case of the drudge-aholic whose toil supports his spouse's self...
...school year begins, Harvard students wanting to explore the discipline--which is really many fields including feminist literary criticism, post-Freudian psychology, women's history and gender issues--will have to pick and choose from a handful of courses sprinkled throughout various departments. The 50 or more seniors this year in traditional departments writing theses with Women's Studies slants will have to fight it out for the few advisors knowledgeable enough to guide them. And most, if not all, students wanting to design a special Women's Studies concentration will be denied the opportunity--of 30 applicants...
...school year begins, Harvard students wanting to explore the discipline--which is really many fields including feminist literary criticism, post-Freudian psychology, women's history and gender issues--will have to pick and choose from a handful of courses sprinkled throughout various departments. The 50 or more seniors this year in traditional departments writing theses with Women's Studies slants will have to fight it out for the few advisors knowledgeable enough to guide them. And most, if not all, students wanting to design a special Women's Studies concentration will be denied the opportunity--of 30 applicants...
...past two years, anti-pornography feminist groups across the country have tried to enact identical laws in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York. Last month, a U.S. Appeals Court of Appeals upheld the unconstitutionality of the Indianapolis statute...
...issue has already divided and embittered some local women's groups who charge that the petitioners are not Cambridge residents. According to members of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT), Cambridge was specifically targeted for this referendum by national groups because the city has a national reputation for voting on controversial, non-binding resolutions...