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Florynce R. "Flo" Kennedy, the flamboyant feminist who lead a "pee-in" at Harvard to protest the lack of women's bathrooms on campus, died last month...
...lawyer, activist and founder of the Feminist Party, Kennedy was for a time one of most well known--and controversial--black political figures in America...
...choices. He could have satisfied the right by selecting Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, who is as tough on crime as Ashcroft, yet far less controversial. But as we are about to find out, Ashcroft won't be confirmed without a fight. The angriest coalition of liberal, civil rights and feminist organizations Washington has seen since the 1987 battle over Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is lining up to oppose him. The opposition's leaders concede that as a former member of the club, Ashcroft would normally sail through the Senate. But since Ashcroft has been on the wrong side...
...leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles to town in the rain to deliver it, then treks back a week later to pick up the one and only reply. It's a quietly stirring proto-feminist sequence, but here it is transmuted into the banal musical yearnings of a romantic teenage girl: "Over mountains, over oceans/Heaven take me away/For I long for my liberty/For sweet liberty I pray...
Renowned scholar, star professor, ground-breaking feminist...Yalie? Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib should have known that great credentials and Yale residency do not mix well. Last Thursday, Benhabib announced she will leave her Harvard post as chair of the Committee on Social Studies for a professorship at Yale in a new political science department program. Benhabib, who is on sabbatical this semester, is one of Harvard's top political philosophers. She is widely recognized for her work in feminist theory, postmodernist theory, continental philosophy and political philosophy...