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...fair Harvard, the boys-are-bad trend is alive and well. Earlier this semester, the Harvard student group Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a “Fuck The Man” party. Though the group assured that it was merely a “feminist dance party,” and that its tagline was not an “anti-male slogan,” the title was tough to stomach. The hosting of a “Fuck The Woman” party surely would’ve had the national media swarming Harvard Yard. Semantics...
...annually, according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter of the law - are being carried out every year in Poland since the introduction of the legislation. "Women seeking help in public hospitals are being treated like beggars," said Kazimiera Szczuka, a feminist activist. "The case of Alicja is not the only...
...happens, feminist ideas were the force behind some of the smartest, most powerful art of the past century. You're reminded of that all through "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution," a pinwheel of an exhibition that runs through July 16 at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "Wack!" which was curated by Cornelia Butler, starts with a bang. It's called Abakan Red, a coarsely woven, more or less circular bolt of red cloth. Suspended from the ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena...
...seen in art, it was finally the turn of women to see what to make of themselves. So Ana Mendieta, a Cuban refugee, traveled around the U.S. and Mexico making deep impressions on the ground in the shape of her silhouette. These she filled with rocks or flowers, making feminist earthworks that used a woman's body, not the steam shovels favored by the guys, to connect with nature...
...since 1990 and demonstrates that the concerns of the '70s have spread around the world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with their masses of battered flesh, are descended from the questions women asked then about the abuse of women's bodies. There's even a residue of feminist thinking in Study of a Boy 1, a haunting photograph by the German artist Loretta Lux, in which a woman's gaze inspects, or "studies," a wary little man in the making. Feminism lives--and in mysterious ways...