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...last chapter titled "Reflections on Self, Spirit and Social Change," Ogden suddenly widens her scope. All within a few pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
Social Studies Director of Studies Judith E. Vichniac said faculty have not yet decided which new theorists could be studied. But Peretz said the list will likely include feminist authors such as Nancy Chodorov and Susan Okun...
...dismissed, it can't help the President to have the national imagination supplied with one more image of him as the Libido in Chief. And at a time when public curiosity about the tales of Clinton's womanizing might have died down, Jones' accusations revive them with a feminist angle: sexual harassment. That has conservatives hoping for a mirror-image replay of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas battle, this time with the No. 1 Democrat as the accused...
...feminist pioneer, or a woman of evil?" Muller's three-hour film does not answer the question. But it does a brilliant job of illustrating the superb talent, the energetic drive, and the moral ambiguity of Leni Riefenstahl...
...thickly bronzed by literary honors that include a Nobel Prize. But public monuments attract pigeons, in Bellow's case the flock of critics and political correctionists who dismiss his traditional humanism, learning and individuality as elitist or worse. Liberals and leftists have long attacked him as an insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker...