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...While most Harvard undergraduates say the feminist movement has been beneficial to the advancement of women, few have actively aligned themselves with the movement on campus...
...think there is a strong feminist presence on campus that doesn't necessarily make itself known," says Shauna L. Shames '01, a member of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence and an advocate for the creation of a women's center at Harvard...
...Palmer aren't endorsing rape, of course. In their article in the latest issue of the Sciences--which is already generating a high volume of buzz although their book, A Natural History of Rape, won't be out until April--they say they just want to correct the feminist fallacy that "rape is not about sex," it's about violence and domination. The authors argue, among other things, that since the majority of victims are women of childbearing age, the motive must be lust and the intent, however unconscious, must be to impregnate. Hence rape...
...touch with his feminine side. Their sexual battle is fierce and believable. The befuddlement of her family is told with unpatronizing honesty. And, best of all, both combatants emerge, finally, as better people--more tolerant, more human. That goes for Campion too. Her film may contain a kind of feminist parable, but she's less tense about it than she has been, more open in the exploration of her characters and more wayward (and charming) in the way she permits them to develop...
...First feminist. First spinmeister. Megawatt celeb. So might our age judge her. To 16th century England, Elizabeth I was the original feminine mystique: goddess Gloriana; Virgin Queen; finally and enduringly, Good Queen Bess. The most remarkable woman ruler in history can claim few traditional princely achievements, yet she gave her name to an age. Hers was a prodigious political success story built on the power of personality: the Queen as star. A woman so strong, a politician so skillful, a monarch so magnetic that she impressed herself indelibly on the minds of her people to reshape the fate of England...