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...really women's studies, it's feminist studies," Mansfield says. "It's a little ladies' sewing circle. They don't like to talk to people out of their own viewpoint, even if it's other women...
...recent article in the conservative journal Peninsula shares Mansfield's concerns. "The philosophy of Women's Studies is little more than self-serving, not to the needs of women (which it actually disregards in the end), but to the feminist agenda and to its own own continued existence within the `academy...
Rather than trying to indoctrinate students with a particular feminist agenda, Walsh says Women's Studies 10a, a concentration prerequisite that she teaches jointly with Professor Lynne Layton, offers many different ways of defining feminism...
...destiny is far kinder in director Christopher Guest's post-feminist ; interpretation of this troubled suburban Mrs. The result is a movie that really means to be funny. The new Attack spoofs '90s notions of male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie...
...record straight, for anyone who has and will misconstrue the term: "feminism" has many different strands and meanings, and cannot be pigeonholed into one narrow definition. While Bowdren admits that feminists form a "disparate group," she continues to address and reject one kind of feminism, that which includes Boyle's superwoman/have-it-all idea. In reality, there are liberal enlightenment feminists, cultural feminists, radical feminists, and more. There's a place for Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Daly, Katie Roiphe and Madonna in feminist discourse--all of whom, I would argue, can be called "feminists" in one way or another. For your information...