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...York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself a feminist...
...thoroughly disgusted to open The Crimson on Jan. 22, the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and discover a complete dearth of coverage on the event. In an undergraduate community of 3,200 women, I did expect to find at least one woman-centered article today, a milestone for feminist rights in this country...
...Crimson’s negligence should offend everyone on this campus. Feminists come from a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs; we are united in our striving for an egalitarian society in which men and women interact as equals. A 1998 poll showed that women’s rights were second only to AIDS as the issue about which young women were most concerned; forty-six percent of young women called women’s rights their “very biggest concern” (Harrison Hickman, Jan. 1998; Feminist Majority Foundation). Clearly, The women of Harvard University care about...
...choice stalwarts pitched themselves to a younger audience more than four years ago with a multimillion-dollar campaign in which some of the ads featured coat hangers. To some of the movement's newest members, the message seemed almost laughably out of touch. "I've been in meetings where feminist activists make no attempt to really listen to young women," says Jennifer Baumgardner, an active Planned Parenthood member and the co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "The women making all the decisions are in menopause...
...don’t consider [my play] to be a feminist enterprise for me, but at the same time, I think it’s rather appalling that there have been so few women on stage,” Carmichael said...