Word: feminist
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Truth be told, feminists haven’t always been responsive to the concerns of working-class women. American feminism as a social movement has been located in the white middle class, and the leaders of the feminist mainstream are only starting to think through the ways that race, class and gender intersect to marginalize women of color. Feminism often valorizes women who can take days off from work in order to attend a protest, while effectively ignoring women who cannot be so cavalier about losing a day’s wages. On the other hand, American labor movements from...
Like any issue, feminist issues exist in all places and contexts, not just those that Westerners deem “oppressive” such as veiled women in Afghanistan. A women’s center would be extremely useful to women at Harvard considering the splintered and disappearing history of Radcliffe College, the still nascent sexual assault policy and the hundreds of portraits and buildings commemorating men’s achievements...
...education here are left-wing catechisms on such topics as social activism and multiculturalism. In his book Illiberal Education, Hoover Institution research fellow Dinesh D’Souza described a Nov. 1989 French class at Harvard, which “resembled a political rally” and consisted of feminist jokes about severed penises. The College’s great strides in 15 years have produced this semester a course on “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” which weighs important commentary from “a socially engaged actress from ‘Buffy...
...been my role model throughout my life, which would be very different had it not been for Steinem and the women's rights movement. She has given me strength and courage. I thank Steinem for being articulate, sexy, smart, strong and passionate. I am proud to be a feminist. SARA A. FLICKNER Chicago...
...also said that any scriptural passage that degrades humanity cannot be truly divine—a notion he credited to Catholic feminist scholar Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza...