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...like people assigning chauvinist characteristics to me on the basis of my disagreement with the feminist legal agenda...
...signs of having a political ax to grind. "She's a scholar in commercial law," says law professor Harry Tepker, a colleague at Oklahoma. "That's not exactly the sort of field that firebrands go into." Those who know her describe her as both a conservative and a feminist but not an ideologue in either area. "I suspect she's a card-carrying Republican," says Joel Paul, a friend who recalls arguments in which Hill would loudly support Judge Robert Bork's unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court. "She is cut from the same political cloth as Thomas...
Here is a rare intersection between the opinions of some ardent feminists and some profound antifeminists. "If a girl can survive high school, she ought to be able to deal with the office," says Phyllis Schlafly, a longtime crusader against feminist causes. For Schlafly, the sexual-harassment argument is a perfect example of how "feminists are asking to have it both ways." Says she: "They have spent 20 years preaching that there isn't any difference between men and women, and now they want to turn around and claim sexual harassment if somebody says something that they don't like...
Segal said there is value in applying modern disciplines like "deconstruction, psychoanalytic, Marxist and feminist criticism" to texts like Homer and Sophocles...
...academics, a feminist activist and a state Republican Party official squared off Wednesday night at a Kennedy School of Government forum, arguing over the just-concluded confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...