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Some argue that women can't play a sport like baseball--at least at the same level as men. Women are different, the objection goes, not as strong or athletically gifted as men. Much feminist theory supports this objection. Nancy Chodorow and others argue that girls and boys develop differently and assume different attributes; girls are nurturing and understanding, while boys are aggressive--the primary quality necessary for sports. Deborah Tannen argues similarly that women and men use different languages...
...about her. Rarely has a plum Broadway role been so ineptly handled. While Errico sings gloriously if unimaginatively, she is an unconvincing Cockney whose linguistic foibles wobble from syllable to syllable, quite a handicap in a show about the social importance of accents. She is plausible only in two feminist-flavored moments, denouncing Chamberlain's Henry Higgins as heartless in the first act and reviling him as a sexist...
...young feminist counsels women to unite and prevail...
...those feminist WACoes, who angrily...
...purpose of 10a is to present a whole range of feminist perspectives, and to show that gender theories do not exist in isolation," Walsh says. "For that matter, there are many, many definitions of feminism...