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Never mind that at the time the article was written, I had never set foot in a women’s studies classroom. Never mind that the article, if mistakenly construed as an extension of feminist theory, would be eaten alive by any women’s studies professor. Never mind that the article was the only Crimson editorial I have ever written on women’s issues...
...studies courses were very popular at Harvard, with the introductory courses attracting more than one hundred students each year. (Some of these students were even—gasp—men.) The current smallness of the department is a direct result of the much larger anti-feminist backlash of the late 1990s...
...picture and 20 minutes to explain my full views. I fear that connotations will either distract from my opinions, or detract by adding unintended meaning to my words, as has already happened. The latter fear is much more threatening, because the reader assumes a leftist feminist political agenda that doesn’t really exist...
...scared that feminists might take [my bags] the wrong way because you never know what the boundaries are,” says Tanenhaus, a self-described feminist. “They might look at a bag of mine and say, ‘Look, this represents females as a soulless empty sack.’ But I don’t think it’s sexist, because [the bag] could be a really girly man’s legs after...
...people that Cotton Mather called “the hidden ones” —women who “prayed secretly, read the Bible through at least once a year, and went to hear the minister preach even when it snowed.” In regards to feminist connotations presently associated with the quote, Ulrich comments, “The whole thing is quite ironic since I’ve made a career of writing about invisible and very well-behaved women...