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Women's issues were unusually prominent in Harvard drama last semester. Several of the plays, like David Gammons's powerful SexGod and Jennifer Giering's uplifting A...My Name is Alice dealt expressly with feminism and other gender issues. Many more focused on broader concerns, or were less explicitly feminist, like Carl Fox's production of On the Verge or Beth Turner's production of Blue Window...
What these diverse productions had in common was a post-feminist perspective; they took place in a world made more equal, but also vastly more complicated, by more than a hundred years of (intermittently) organized feminism...
...feminist?" "inquired Dr. Mihaly Hoppal, a professor of sociology at the Budapest Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Please, that is terrible. You will be miserable. A woman naturally belongs in the house with her children. History has shown us that that is her proper role...
Harassment of women does not end with such sexual and visual assaults; the average woman's day is filled with sexual discrimination both at home and at work. With this pervasive chauvinism in Hungarian society, one would hope that a strong feminist movement would be forming in Hungary. No such luck. Instead, conditions just continue to deteriorate for millions of Hungarian women...
Still, Ranke-Heinemann is not a litmus-test feminist. Although some feminist cults yearn for paganism to supplant Judaism and Christianity, Ranke-Heinemann contends that Catholicism went wrong when it spurned the healthy outlook of the Jewish Bible and absorbed hostility toward sex from certain pagan groups. On abortion, she notes that ancient Judaism and Christianity joined in opposing the pro-choice stance of paganism. Her fury is aimed only at the official Catholic teaching that it is better to let a pregnant woman die than to perform an abortion...