Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the basic premise of Sex and Destiny, a broad and impassioned new world-view by the Australian feminist best known for The Female Eunuch--her contribution to feminist ideology. But some feminists may be upset by this book, as it is not exactly NOW party-line. On the other hand, there will be few who remain unmoved by this ambitious and often emotional look at such topics as gynecological methods, contraception, and the myth of the population explosion...
Among Democrats of every philosophical tint there is some pick-a-woman sentiment. The enthusiasm seems motivated more by wishful political calculation than by feminist feeling. Says Wisconsin Party Chairman Matthew Flynn: "Mondale has only one chance to win this election-if he picks a woman. He has to take a gamble." Ferraro, 48, is the leading female contender. As an Italian American from the East, Ferraro would provide political leavening. Feinstein, 50, the impressive Jewish mayor of a hip city, would help compensate for the nominee's Midwestern squareness...
Among the student committee's accomplishments were a feminist thought group and an initiation of women's studies committee within individual departments. According to Spitzer, the department committee discussed issues with tutors and department heads. In the English department it compiled a list of tutors interested in feminist criticism, and in the History department the committee worked with Professor Catherine Clinton to create a junior tutorial that focused exclusively on women's studies...
When Ms. magazine featured a Harvard professor on its cover last December, it sold more copies than a month earlier, when the feminist periodical spotlighted celebrity rock star Bette Midler...
...some cases, there was little communication at all. Many members of Lionel remember that Tim, the Indiana Mennonite, bad trouble talking with other members of the dorm. Carol recalls that when she and Tim once talked about rape, her feminist views and his religious ones clashed so violently that the discussion eventually had to be broken up by force. Others, however, remember how little Tim ever said. Gary perhaps noticed it most, since he and Tim drove west together over several vacations. "We drove west for 15 hours and he'd say absolutely nothing," Gary recalls...