Word: feminist
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...Schooled in feminist theory, I felt a certain, unaccountable responsibility to maneuver my copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" into a prominent position - blocking out, if at all possible, my collection's less savory offerings (dog-eared copies of Vogue, well-loved Maeve Binchy novels, the odd Tom Clancy spy thriller). A sort of respectability tier system developed, with books stacked three deep on each shelf. Over the years, the private persona of my bookshelves evolved into something quite different from the carefully groomed face they showed to the world...
...long while, I hid my affinity for Fielding's heroine. I laughed along with friends who scorned the book's so-called "anti-feminist" leanings and rolled my eyes accommodatingly whenever anyone mentioned Bridget's struggles with a phantom "weight problem" (which was generally understood to fluctuate between five and 15 undesirable pounds). I nodded silently when my mother dismissed the book as "fluff...
Last week I had what Lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld ’96 calls a feminist moment. Sure, I have been involved in various women’s groups for a number of years, and I have always considered myself a feminist. But suddenly, the pieces have fallen into place, and I see all around me examples of subtle and overt efforts to undermine women and preserve a tradition of male domination. The relationship between pornography, gendered marketing and the social pressure to assume “traditional” gender roles on the one hand, and sexual violence...
...system, Wellstone argued, you can't just shuffle the money from parties to outside groups. It wasn't enough to limit issues ads by unions and corporations in the last weeks of a campaign; he proposed extending the limits to all advocacy groups, from the Christian Coalition to the Feminist Majority Foundation. But any limit on political speech makes First Amendment purists queasy, and his amendment, reformers feared, would never pass constitutional muster. And that might one day be all it would take to kill the entire bill--if the Senate passed a "non-severability" amendment, the great deal breaker...
Erdrich, who was raised a Catholic, admits that making her main character a woman priest has a feminist aspect, but adds, "I don't really think it is about gender in the larger sense. I think it's about a search for identity." The possibility of being more than one sort of person comes to Erdrich as a birthright: she is German on her father's side and French and Ojibwe on her mother's. She spent her childhood in Wahpeton, N.D., where both parents taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Those years drew Erdrich strongly toward...