Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suppose that a hypothetical Harvard Anti-Abortion Association and a Harvard Pro-Sexism Club invited Phyllis Schlafly to a "private teach-in on pro-sexism". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they would, and the Harvard feminist groups would, view them as having been violated (and rightly so). Or suppose a not so hypothetical Harvard Conservative Club and the editors of the Harvard Salient invited the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to a "private teach-in on states rights". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they...
...House follows Norwegian housewife Nora Helmer's burgeoning self-awareness as her husband learns of a deception she committed to save his life. His unsympathetic and selfish reaction leads her to question the basis for her marriage and her place in her society. The major problem with the traditional feminist interpretation is that much of the detail has become dated: turn of the century Norway is not 1980s United States. The Lowell production circumvents this potential flaw by emphasizing the underlying human relationships rather than the specifics of Nora's situation. Nora's struggle is transformed from that...
WHAT WITH controversy over the Pi Eta Speakers Club and the What is to be Done problems with Wellesley. Harvard feminists recently have had a lot to keep themselves busy. Lowell House Drama Society's current staging of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House resists the temptation to capitalize on this furor. By shifting the play's emphasis from feminist to humanist, the production loses none of the original interpretation's power while finding a deeper and more universal message...
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Betty Friedan wrote what is now considered to be the original feminist bible: The Feminine Mystique. Setting the tone for the bra-burning feminists of the 1960's. Friedan began a revolutionary and radical questioning of a woman's place in society. Since then, the polemical rhetoric of the women's movement's early stages has gradually been replaced by a more moderate and rational argument for sexual equality. More and more feminists are asserting that women can be "different but equal...
Brownmiller offers exhaustive proof of the historical basis for sexism, but she offers no solutions. She concludes the book by saying that "there are no easy answers" to the many central questions which she has posed. For this reason, Femininity offers no real step forward in feminist though. Highly personal and packed with lively anecdotes--both autobiographical and historical --the book nevertheless fails to offer any fresh insights. Instead, a current of resentment runs throughout, as though Brownmiller wrote Femininity to purge the curtseys of her youth and high heels of her adulthood...