Word: feminist
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...binary opposition, feminist the-orists have argued for years, always creates definition through the establishment of difference where one side is superior to the other. (No, I am not going to drop any fancy names here). In the articles devoted to Ebonics covering dozens of glossy pages and smudged newsprint, as well as in the debates on college campuses, what is being established is binary opposition, is difference...
...hype has given us the perfect opportunity to rehash our debates about the true motives of Luke Skywalker's suspicious uncle Owen, to argue about the relative merits of life in the Hoth and Dagobah systems, and of course, to ponder whether Princess Leia is, in fact, a true feminist...
...certain emotional distance from his material. Cunneen, a retired English professor and a religious journalist, delves into Marian history with less authority but with the once-burned affection of a woman who, rummaging recently through a drawer, was moved to discover her old rosary. Cunneen qualifies as a Catholic feminist: she is painfully aware of the line that runs between Saint Athanasius' 4th century contention that Mary "remained continually at home, living a retired life and imitating a honeybee" and the impossibly pure, impossibly obedient "Housewife Mary" rejected by many of Cunneen's peers in the 1960s...
...pairing up, Price and Haynes certainly have a demographic edge. He is the vice-president of the Black Men's Forum, while students describe Haynes as a conservative feminist. She's a Winthrop resident, while he lives in the Quad...
...flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this is a scatological work or a racy read about a rich scientist-businessman. Instead, it is an earnest attempt by a talented writer to redraw the profile of the typical macho American giant to conform to more feminist and environmental ideals. In this, Simpson seems to be invading territory that Jane Smiley opened in A Thousand Acres...