Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Such heresy from an intelligent and liberated woman, a beneficiary of the feminist movement! Shouldn t I hate anything that smacks of the unenlightened era when men brought home the bacon and their wives cooked it? Domestic tasks are the enemy: they trick perfectly capable women into stay-at-home-mom-ness. To be a strong, complete woman, I am supposed to eschew all housewife-ish activities and pursue the rat race. Why? Because in this...
...official: I m a really bad feminist. Odd, since I sincerely believe in the equality of sexes. This equality still fails to show up in the gender ratio of faculty or even of section assholes. Feminism does and did a lot to banish such inequality (understatement) and I m grateful that I can pursue whatever catches my fancyaexcept, considering my petite stature, maybe wrestling or basketball. Not to say that there aren t women who can do those pretty darn well...
...Despite my appreciation, I don t know what to do about the awkward ambiguities feminism left for me and a couple other billion women: what to do if I m not the perfect feminist? So if you know, let me know. I ll be vacuuming or plucking my brows...
Comparing men and women is like comparing beer and wine. The two are worlds apart. Yet narrowing the differences and balancing the scale were always at the top of the feminist agenda. It's heartening to know that a new level of thinking is coming around--the "femaleist" approach. That's the way to go. Of course, men and women are different. You betcha, and aren't I glad! JUNAINA SAULAT Karachi...
Fatefully, such amity did not prevail at a laboratory over at King's College, London, where a woman named Rosalind Franklin was creating the world's best X-ray diffraction pictures of DNA. Maurice Wilkins, a colleague who was also working on DNA, disliked the precociously feminist Franklin, and the feeling was mutual. By Watson's account, this estrangement led Wilkins to show Watson one of Franklin's best pictures yet, which hadn't been published. "The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open," Watson recalled. The sneak preview "gave several of the vital helical parameters...