Word: feminist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...English professor interested in feminist and cultural theory, her loss was not quite so easy to label...
...Since the 1980's, the department has been identified by many elements of Harvard as the one having...feminist senior women who are very outspoken, and I do think it's made a kind of backlash...[But] when strong women intellectually congregate in a particular discipline or department, they have to be ready...
...work of FFL proves that a commitment to education, outreach and resources and support for women in need does not depend on pro-choice or pro-life labels. Like the early American feminists who opposed abortion, FFL seeks to address systematically the root causes of the problem, and has in the past fought for the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Violence Against Women Act, stronger child support enforcement and the elimination of child exclusion measures in welfare reform. In doing so, it has worked with groups such as Planned Parenthood of America, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action...
Doyle, 33, a robust blond from Huntington Beach, Calif., was reared by battling parents who taught her that marriage should be an equal partnership. But the writer, who bills herself in her biography as "a feminist and former shrew," says she nearly ruined her marriage to husband John, 44, by becoming a control freak, constantly nagging and demeaning him. Doyle says she turned to happier friends for advice. One told her she never criticized her husband; another said she gave hers control of the money. From there, and aided by ideas in other self-help books, Doyle formulated the concept...
Shortly after her graduation, she opened her own law firm, which blossomed. She became involved in representing radical and feminist groups, and, quickly, as a leader of the groups themselves...