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Professor of Afro-American Studies and of African American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a top scholar of African-American religious history and thought. She is an expert in feminist history and the author of a well-received book on the women's movement in the Black Baptist Church...
...directing attorney of the Women's Refugee Project, a joint program of Harvard Law School and Cambridge and Somerville (Massachusetts) Legal Services. "Harm that is done to women is seen as a personal, private or cultural matter. Genital mutilation has not been seen as a type of harm." The feminist mainstream has been particularly galvanized by the highly personalized documentary film and book on female-genital mutilation, Warrior Marks, co-authored by novelist Alice Walker. Walker sees it as a heinous form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by "the feeling of being overpowered and thoroughly dominated by those you are duty...
There is no feminist lecture at the group's next stop, Bloomingdale's, where Zlata ogles shoes. A self-proclaimed footwear fanatic, she admires some oxfords and high-tops but purchases nothing; her heart is set on a pair of $19.99 Mary Janes she spotted earlier...
This past summer, a frustrated housewife cut off her abusive husband's penis and tossed it in a nearby field. Within a few weeks, Lorena Bobbit became the feminist heroine of our time, and castration became a real concern for American males...
...issue featured articles such as "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" which questioned the academic value of Women's Studies 10b: Current Problems in Feminist Theory, and "RU- What?," which attacked RUS' legitimacy as therepresentative of women's voices on campus...