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Professor of Government Seyla Benhabibincorporates feminist perspectives on traditionaltexts into her core course, Moral Reasoning 50,"The Public and the Private." She does not believethat students lose anything from studyingphilosophers such as Aristotle, Hobbles and Lockefrom a contemporary perspective...
...always been a big problem at Harvard," she says; a professor once told her that her accent was "incredibly affected." But that was the way one leamed to talk at her all-girls high school, "a cross between a ladies' finishing school and an institution that bred independent, feminist young women...
Things weren't quite so overt at that first executive board meeting, but Prabhu says people tossed the words "darlin'" and "honey" around. Prabhu says she now heard these terms as slurs. People also accused her of being a radical feminist. "Somehow," she says, "those became the ugliest words that you could toss at any woman...
...feminist movement had "some" or "little impact on 64 percent of the all-male class, while 22 percent said it didn't affect them...
McGuire seems to feel that he has cornered the market on "rational discourse" and "intelligent criticism," yet he describes the feminist term "empowerment" as "a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration for 'liberated mothers' and their bastard children". Rational debate or political diatribe (informed by a paranoid right-wing agenda)? You be the Judge...