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Wilson is, in fact, Radcliffe's first postfeminist president. A precise thinker, the scientist-administrator would certainly not be comfortable with such an ill-defined term--but neither is she with describing herself as a feminist...
...fact, by Bly's calculation, there are at least seven different men's movements: 1) a sort of right-wing men's movement that is, in fact, frequently antifeminist; 2) feminist men; 3) men's rights advocates who think, for example, men get a raw deal in divorce; 4) the Marxist men's movement; 5) the gay men's movement; 6) the black men's movement, extremely important in Bly's view because of the devastation to black males in American society; and 7) men in search of spiritual growth, the Bly wing of the idea, dealing with mentors...
...Nick at Nite channel). The gimmick: a wholesome 1950s TV family materializes in 1991 New Jersey, where they find that their sweetness-and-light television fantasy life (which they can revert to by switching themselves into black and white) clashes with the real world of muggers, homeless people and feminist single mothers...
...fact, dissidence ought to be regarded as one of our finest traditions and proudest exports to the world. The feminist movement began here and spread throughout the world. Our civil rights movement has inspired the downtrodden in dozens of nations, and gay rights was practically invented here. Jefferson, I daresay, would be proud...
...churches for years have also been under increasing scholarly pressure to treat traditional understandings of Scripture as cultural expressions, subject to change, rather than as God's eternal strictures. Another important factor is the intellectual influence of feminist groups that see traditional Judeo- Christian morality as an expression of patriarchy. In addition, a trend has been emerging in modern moral theology to base judgments concerning sexuality not on absolute rules but on the relative value of each relationship. This approach was promoted as early as 1966 by Episcopal theologian Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics: The New Morality. Among the denominations...