Word: feminist
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...those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing to browse. Some people thought the store should have been closed after Cairnie’s death, while those who had been excluded before came back with threats. Solano’s feminist views also made things harder, especially because the literary industry was still run almost entirely by men. “It was a rocky but exciting road. I punched around a lot—it was good training,” said Solano...
Never mind that at the time the article was written, I had never set foot in a women’s studies classroom. Never mind that the article, if mistakenly construed as an extension of feminist theory, would be eaten alive by any women’s studies professor. Never mind that the article was the only Crimson editorial I have ever written on women’s issues...
...studies courses were very popular at Harvard, with the introductory courses attracting more than one hundred students each year. (Some of these students were even—gasp—men.) The current smallness of the department is a direct result of the much larger anti-feminist backlash of the late 1990s...
...picture and 20 minutes to explain my full views. I fear that connotations will either distract from my opinions, or detract by adding unintended meaning to my words, as has already happened. The latter fear is much more threatening, because the reader assumes a leftist feminist political agenda that doesn’t really exist...
...people that Cotton Mather called “the hidden ones” —women who “prayed secretly, read the Bible through at least once a year, and went to hear the minister preach even when it snowed.” In regards to feminist connotations presently associated with the quote, Ulrich comments, “The whole thing is quite ironic since I’ve made a career of writing about invisible and very well-behaved women...