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...Harvard Square subway stop to her Radcliffe dorm room despite her protestations that it was unnecessary. I did so in part because I was stubborn about good Southern manners, but also because I wanted to prove to her that I was at least aware enough of eastern-sophisticated-feminist norms to not try to kiss her goodnight. It was a way of salvaging a little dignity. And so it ended well...
...idea of Mother's Day vibrates with a residual impulse to canonize mothers, even though a feminist might say that the habit of doing so ought to vanish, unlamented, when the conditions producing wifely and motherly martyrdom (Hannah Nixon's or Rebekah Johnson's, for example) also recede. It can only be a good thing for women - right? - when they are not called upon to be saints in the old style of forbearance and abnegation, asked to lead a life that would wither a woman like Rebekah Johnson and leave her more embittered than her children, the once-a-year...
...Although she is relatively new to the festival that Master of the Arts at Harvard John Lithgow ’67 and President Neil Rudenstine first launched in 1993, Schorr has had a great deal of experience in the arts. She has directed various spectacles around Boston, everything from feminist agitprop to theatrical fashion shows and a live philosophy-and-culture game show. With her background in writing, editing, theater and education Schorr says that she “enjoy[s] putting on shows that don’t take themselves too seriously but challenge people to think...
...don’t specifically have a feminist agenda,” she said. “I do have an agenda that includes open communication...
...long while, I hid my affinity for Fielding's heroine. I laughed along with friends who scorned the book's so-called "anti-feminist" leanings and rolled my eyes accommodatingly whenever anyone mentioned Bridget's struggles with a phantom "weight problem" (which was generally understood to fluctuate between five and 15 undesirable pounds). I nodded silently when my mother dismissed the book as "fluff...