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That's right: country music has gone feminist...
Sure, the occasional female artist may show up feminist; that's happening in most mainstream genres. Those women got me listening again. Their men love them "just the way I am," and they are going to "make it in her daddy's world...
However, this encouragement often seems superficial. As we watch scores of women and even some of our friends pass by our posters without even a glance, we sense their skepticism about our decision to devote so much time and energy to these crunchy, outdated feminist causes. Many students at Harvard-Radcliffe seem to believe that the women's liberation movement has run its course and that the struggles of women are no longer relevant to their lives. Sometimes, after lengthy budget negotiations, scrambles for room assignments and 8 a.m. poster runs, we even wonder the same thing. There are moments...
...moments of doubt about our feminist endeavors, and as a response to those who impugn them, we recall that women face multiple impediments to safety. These issues need to be addressed by women as a group and the community-at-large. With our mouths full of ice cream, we must continue to yell for change--and hope that more students will do the same...
...century contains only three women, or 15% of the total. Expressed as a grade, this is an F-, so that if history were a classroom, women would have to take the 20th century over again. Naturally, my first response was to demand a recount. Where, for example, are the feminist revolutionaries--the Betty Friedans, the Sylvia Pankhursts, the Simone de Beauvoirs? Yes, I know there are still four more categories and 80 more names to go, but it's a pretty boyish definition of revolution that includes only those great social upheavals that involved the storming of palaces...