Word: feminist
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...after his death. Pablo Neruda wanted a Nobel Prize so much that he reportedly wined and dined Swedish writers and academics at his seaside villa; he finally won one in 1971. Bob Dylan has been nominated six times, Jerry Lewis once. In 2004, the literature prize went to Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek, a move so controversial that one assembly member resigned in protest. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared a 1973 Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War. Tho rejected his award, saying there was no peace in his country. Kissinger's acceptance caused an uproar...
...degrading" pageant to be scrapped before its grand finale. Three-hundred people have joined the Facebook group, and together they have organized debates and rallies in London, and convinced several student unions to ban pageant advertisements on campus because they violate the "safe space" policy of various university charters. Feminist ire isn't just directed at pageant organizers either. They also point the finger at contestants who they feel possess a false sense of emancipation. "Their attention-seeking is completely misplaced," says Ruby Buckley, a women's officer at LSE. "They are parading up and down and being leered...
...early 1990s. “When I started at the library [in 1968], there were cookbooks, but I was told they were just there for decoration,” she says. “And when Julia Child gave her collection of books in 1990, it was still a feminist library with a fairly feminist staff. Believe me, I’m a card-carrying feminist, but I wanted to prove to myself that food and gender go together.” Despite the sub rosa discontent that pervaded the library in the early years of the collection, Haber persisted...
...professor Richard W. Wrangham—the author of “Demonic Males”—primarily cited nature as the source of male violence. Though Wrangham stressed that its being natural should not be an excuse. “I tend to agree on the feminist line that every man is a potential rapist because men are a member of a species that have a certain pattern,” Wrangham said. Social constraints are then crucial to preventing this male violence. “The reason we are presented here with civilized men behaving well...
...Ehs” and “Ohs” appearing on most tracks on the disc. Although the beats possess B’s signature style, the rapid vocals have a rap-like flow—a cross between T.I. and the old Destiny’s Child feminist shout-outs. The album is two-faced. One disc fulfills most expectations, while the other offers something old in a condensed format. By separating the album onto two discs, Beyoncé has helped me realize that maybe “the real Beyoncé” isn?...