Word: feminist
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Hewlett calls herself a feminist, but she has often crossed swords with feminists who, she charges, are so concerned with reproductive choice that they neglect the needs of women who choose to be mothers. In the history of the family, she notes, it is a very recent development for women to have control over childbearing, thanks to better health care and birth control. But there's an ironic twist now. "In just 30 years, we've gone from fearing our fertility to squandering it--and very unwittingly." The decision of whether to have a child will always...
Students could write to Elle magazine about the problem of prostitution, she says. Or they could write a paper responding to one woman’s statement that “gaining weight and taking my head out of the toilet was the most feminist thing I ever...
...recent months, my ever-faithful roommates have noticed something a bit fanatic in my feelings towards the military. “You are a psychotic Republican freak, announced Natasha P. Rosow ’02 (an überhip L.A. bohemian liberal feminist destined for Hollywood glory) after my particularly vehement defense of Mr. Rumsfeld. Squash star-cum-photographer Carlin E. Wing ’02, on the other hand, sends forth e-mails rife with anti-establishment sentiment, hoping beyond hope that she can convert me to a sense of normalcy. At my moments of severe military fervor, however...
DIED. PATRICIA REIF, 72, rebellious ex-nun who in 1984 founded the nation's first graduate-degree program in feminist spirituality; in Claremont, Calif. In the tumultuous late 1960s Reif and her sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary shed their habits to engage more directly in public service. When the church rejected their reforms, 300 renounced their vows and left to form an experimental lay community...
Whatever is behind female bingeing--conformity, crypto-feminism, ennui--it's hardly a feminist act. Gender equality wouldn't be worth fighting for if all it meant was the opportunity to be as stupid and self-destructive as men can be. Not that 21st century feminism is likely to revert to 19th century prohibitionism. Women no longer seek to eliminate all the dangerous and exciting things that men have historically tried to keep for themselves. But they need to appropriate alcohol on their own terms and with their own biochemistry in mind--weighing the harms and the benefits, and then...