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...article predicts that “the divorce will be one of the most spectacular of the coming year.” Ferguson, a professor of history and of businesses administration, is allegedly leaving his wife for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a notable feminist and intellectual who is a famous figure in her own right. She wrote the script for the Theo van Gogh film "Submission," and then when van Gogh was murdered, the killer issued her a death threat. She now lives under constant protection...
...shooting” an image. Enmeshed in the sexual economy of the gaze, vision too exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences—hearing, smelling, tasting, touching—has effected an impoverishment of bodily relations. Deflated to the two-dimensional surface—the film, the television screen, the billboard, the magazine advertisement—the female body has lost...
...fierce intellectual, an intrepid scholar, a wicked wit and an uncompromising radical, Mary Daly was the first feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who died Jan. 3 at 81, taught at Boston College for 33 years, and her outspoken views gave the school's Jesuit administration indigestion nearly every day. An eloquent critic of patriarchal organized religion, she barred men from her feminist-ethics classes--citing how their presence could change the dynamics of discussions--yet was willing to tutor them privately. And though she was the recipient of doctorates in religion and sacred theology, she left the church and confronted...
...such a thing as cougar cruises, don't worry, because the first was last month, a three-day voyage on the Carnival Elation between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico. More are planned this year for this cohort of older women who prefer younger men ("cubs") - the members of a feminist movement that's now being celebrated on network sitcoms Cougartown and Accidentally on Purpose. (See the top 10 buzzwords...
While working with the former Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (now the QSA), the Women’s Center, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), and the Trans Task Force, Smith has lent his own unique perspective to issues of queer and feminist activism relating to what he identifies as “sex-positive activism...