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...resignation of feminist literary critic Carolyn G. Heilbrun from the Columbia faculty should be taken as a strong signal to university administrators across the nation: Feminist scholarship needs support. Heilbrun, a tenured professor who had been at Columbia for 32 years, says she gave up her position this year to protest Columbia's neglect of her field and specifically its failure to tenure more women faculty. While the situation at Harvard is better, we should remain vigilant...
...Professor of Law David W. Kennedy, recited passages from chapter seven of Frug's book: "Rescuing Impossibility Doctrine: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Contract Law," a selection that concluded the reading...
Last spring, the Harvard Law Review published an in-house parody of an article by slain feminist legal scholar Mary Joe Frug. A group of Harvard law professors reacted with a strongly worded letter charging that the parody was representative of an atmosphere of misogyny at the Law School...
...winners shouldn't expect to usher in the feminist millennium. With a Clinton Administration, there may be some easy wins on the Freedom of Choice Act, family leave and fetal-tissue research. But in a rating of his program by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, Clinton received only a B-minus (Bush got a D), and in an effort to build a governing coalition, he may be tempted to distance himself from his party's more feminist and liberal wing. In the House, where women have traditionally been relegated to inconsequential committees, the new crop...
...need be the 218th Year of the Man. Everything that the new female Senators and Congresswomen manage to accomplish will add to the credibility of the next surge of female candidates. And everything they don't get done will only add to the anger, and hence to the feminist resources, available to fuel the fire next time...