Word: feminist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problem with current women-in-peril films is they've got the peril but not the deep emotional resonance," observes Camille Paglia, the post-feminist author and agitator. "They're driven by gimmicky, high-concept plots. But the center of great women's pictures is the long close-up of a woman's soulful, suffering face as her eyes brim with tears. Today's actresses are too buff and brittle to take that kind of scrutiny...Too many know how to do everything but play real women. If the women-in-jeopardy motif can make filmmakers start to think...
Neuhaus-Follini said Perspective had more freedom than RUS—the oldest feminist organization on campus—in advertising to pre-frosh...
...small lips contort into a smile, as she told him he would never find what he was looking for in their relationship. She had spent the first days of her sophomore year crouched over her cumbersome, gray Women’s Leadership Project binder as she brushed up on feminist issues in her DeWolfe suite. She knew she wanted to be an actress, and that in the months that would follow her graduation her dreams would take her to only one city—Los Angeles. Her mother, a nurse, had given up many of her career goals to raise...
Despite its success in portraying the emotional and physical repercussions of sexual assault—and I write this as a self-described feminist and as someone who has consistently tried to build women up at this University, not tear them down—the Clothesline Project fell short in that it did not adequately empower potential victims of sexual assault to seek justice for themselves, nor did it effectively advocate for the reduction of sexual assault at Harvard...
...favorite women professors leave with a lot less fanfare and a far smaller outcry. Where was the series of front-page stories for Juliet Schor, an internationally-known economist who was beloved by her students, when she left for Boston College last year? Seyla Benhabib, one of the top feminist theorists in the country, defected to Yale, while other important and influential women were denied tenure or elected to depart upon seeing how low their chances were of obtaining it (18 of 19 University professors are men, along with more than three-quarters of the faculty in general). Where...