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...will follow you your whole adult life are born." And doing a show about it is a great means of getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek becoming emblems of post-feminist girlhood, sex, violence, name your issue, in a way that Saved by the Bell never did. Today you hardly hear the word teen without angst following, but what these series display is adult angst with perkier buns and better clothes, grownups positing kids as canaries in the societal coal mine...
...have benefited from and participated in Harvard feminist networks--as an undergraduate, graduate student and most recently a faculty member," says Ann Pellegrini '84, who taught at Harvard and is now an associate professor of women's studies at Barnard College...
...worked at the Murray Research Center on a Radcliffe internship during the summer between her junior and senior years at Harvard. Her supervisor from that summer became a good friend and now works as the policy director at a major feminist organization in Washington...
...have connected feminist students interested in doing activist work...to her organization," Pellegrini says. "The students were hired on their merits, although it did not hurt that they had letters of reference from someone my friend knows and trusts...
...detractors had great fun with Eleanor Roosevelt. Her relentlessly feminist biographer, Blanche Wiesen Cook, goes to the other extreme. Her second volume of Eleanor Roosevelt, a projected three-volume life (Viking; 686 pages; $34.95), runs now and then to hagiography: "Her ethic was simple: She wanted to see the best she could imagine for herself and her loved ones made available to everyone...