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DIED. CAROLYN HEILBRUN, 77, feminist literary scholar who wrote detective novels under the name Amanda Cross; a suicide; in New York City. The longtime Columbia University professor initially worried that her academic reputation would suffer if she wrote the novels under her own name. Her son said she had not been ailing but "wanted to control her destiny...
That is why NOW, Feminist Majority, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and NARAL Pro-Choice America have joined together for the first time ever to organize a march on Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 25, 2004. Women have struggled hard to achieve the rights they enjoy today, but the battle for their rights has just begun. With the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, now is the time to realize a danger that the Bush administration poses to the woman’s right to control her own body. Without action, the protections guaranteed under Roe could soon become...
...exceptions, those in control are generally white and middle- or upper-class; and when you make a mess, someone else is usually there to clean up after you. (I always thought it was strangely appropriate when, during punch season, one club dresses up like suffragettes and mocks the early feminist movement. Isn’t that the final clubs’ current era, anyway...
...march is being organized by the Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Planned Parenthood to ensure that women continue to have access to abortion, which organizers said they feel is a right that the Bush administration is threatening...
Neill is also a Divinity School student working on a doctoral dissertation about feminist theories and the body, in light of new reproductive technologies. She arrives at FM’s designated meeting place looking decidedly un-Divinity School in cranberry lipstick, a coordinating plum top and skirt and flats. She may look cute, but inside she is all business. Her mission—organize the closets of Harvard students...