Word: feminist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What kind of student is attracted to a feminist cause these days? Sometimes it's someone like Krissy Schnebel, 19, who has little interest in feminist politics...
Mertz credits feminist Betty Friedan with turning her life around. "It wasn't until The Feminine Mystique," she says, "that I began to get those 'clicks' that she talks about, and they came like a machine gun." By the time the epiphanies stopped, Mertz's marriage was over, as well as her days as a housewife. "I'm not knocking homemaking," she is quick to say. "I would have hated to miss my children's first words and first steps. I just wish there had been more options for us women...
...with Harvard men, “except if they didn’t notice me, or if I didn’t look pretty enough,” she says. “I played the game by the then-rules, and I certainly wasn’t a feminist...
...deafening amount of speech on issues from the grave to the trivial—a divisive war in Iraq, controversy at morning prayers, outcry over a poetry reading and boisterous debates about a phallus made of snow. Arguments and insults have shot across House open e-mail lists. Outspoken feminist Amy M. Keel ’04 and arch-conservative Gladden J. Pappin ’04 have become dorm-room names after unapologetically espousing ideas that were decidedly unpopular with the majority of students. Indeed, this school year, much more than last, was dominated by e-mails and opinion...
Sorenstam, 32, insists that going up against the boys has nothing to do with blazing a feminist trail in men's sports. It's about one woman, her game and her purely selfish motives. "I would not have gotten all this attention if I were not a good golfer," she says. "This is a way to push myself to another level. This is for myself...