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...former student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is suing the University, charging that she was denied a Ph.D. because she refused to embrace the feminist ideology of the Comparative Literature Department...
Marilyn B. McLatchey, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from 1988 to 1993, wrote in a complaint that faculty examiners would not give her a passing grade on her general exam, simply because she would not advocate feminist doctrine, she charged...
...while sci-fi may never fully shed its dweeby image, the reality has evolved along with the rest of pop culture. Readers can choose from a wide array of subgenres, including Tolkienesque fantasy, high-tech cyberpunk, horror sci-fi, feminist sci-fi, techno-thriller sci-fi, gay and lesbian sci-fi and even sci-fi erotica. Readership and authorship have broadened too: women now account for a third of the science-fiction audience, compared with just 10% in the '50s, and such writers as Ursula Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler (one of sci-fi's few African-American authors...
...problem, as detailed in The Power of Beauty, is that most women create insurmountable obstacles to their pursuit of another troika, "beauty/sex/men." For this, Friday clearly blames the feminist movement. As she sees it, the braless raised fisties of the mid-'60s separated women from their natural love of sex and men, and thus made women unnaturally dependent on one another...
Friday is still angry about the hostility she felt she encountered from other women when she wore suede pants at a feminist rally. She's equally put out by women who categorize Hillary Clinton or Barbra Streisand as "ball-breaking." Whether Friday's prescription for women to embrace their own sexuality--and men--would curb this kind of feminine competition is debatable. Furthermore, Friday hurls gossipy anecdotes as arbitrary and vindictive as any told about her suede pants...