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Armstrong considers herself a feminist. But she argues that while it might not be right to call God exclusively "he," it is equally mistaken to regard God as "she." This makes God into a being. She notes, however, that much of the gender politics of God may come from the inflexibility of English. Other languages allow God to transcend sex. In Arabic, for example, the supreme name for God, al-Lah, is masculine, but his other names, "the Compassionate" (al- Rahmat) and "the Merciful" (al-Rahim), are feminine...
...Feminist legal scholar Catharine A. Mackinnon was denied tenure last spring, and some of her supporters felt that her controversial approach mattered as much as the quality of her scholarship in the decision...
Last year, feminist legal scholar CatherineMacKinnon failed to get the two-thirds votenecessary for a Harvard tenure offer...
Dalton said she is both "a critical theorist and a feminist theorist," and that in 1987 the school was split ideologically between traditional viewpoints, critical legal studies approaches and other methodologies. Harvard perhaps "has more trouble accepting nontraditional" research approaches, Dalton said...
Nothing churns up publicity like the spectacle of feuding feminists. Just ask Camille Paglia. With her rancorous condemnation of writers like Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolf, Paglia vaulted from the mossy groves of academia to the glossy pages of Vanity Fair. Now comes Katie Roiphe, 25, to play the part of heretic in the feminist crusade. In The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, Roiphe targets what she calls the "rape culture" spawned by college feminists who claim that no woman is ever safe from the threat of rape or sexual harassment...