Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French section will offer a new concentration in French culture and civilization, which will focus on literature and language while also starting new courses in French cinema and French feminist theory, for example...
...French section will offer a new concentration in French culture and civilization, which will focus on literature and language while also starting new courses in French cinema and French feminist theory, for example...
...Coloradan is a leading member of the House Armed Services Committee. While getting high marks for her military expertise, Schroeder is often seen as a knee-jerk dove. She co-chairs the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, which counts 117 men among its 132 members. An outspoken feminist, Schroeder is married to a Washington lawyer and has two teen-age children. Her political profile is left of center: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.) gives her a 90% rating...
...selection." > Kathy Whitmire, 37. Five months into her second term as mayor of Houston, the primly coiffed and bespectacled Whitmire is no longer called "Tootsie," an unflattering reference to her resemblance to Actor Dustin Hoffman in the film by that name. A certified public accountant and dedicated feminist, Whitmire served two terms as city controller before winning the top job. She has run the flagging boomtown with businesslike efficiency, resisting new taxes while improving garbage collection and paving miles of streets. In 1982 she shocked the Houston Establishment by appointing Lee Brown, a black and an outsider, to head...
...used to be." That may be news to mathematicians, but it seemed to make perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away on television last June...