Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought Ibsen's war-horse had breathed its last, director Anthony Page, translator Frank McGuinness and galvanizing star Janet McTeer brought it back to life in a brilliant Broadway production imported from London. Their triumph was to make us feel the wrenching human underpinnings of drama's most famous feminist battle...
Speaking of Showgirls, Starship Troopers is also audaciously political and even--gasp!--feminist in its handling of the gender-mixing of its military forces. Gender is never portrayed as an impediment to becoming a spaceship pilot or front-line soldier; actually, neither the film nor its characters acknowledge any gender gap at all. The harmony between male and female soldiers is so improbably complete that everyone showers together in the wide-open locker room. Sexual liaisons do occur among unit members, but cease en flagrante when the battle-siren sounds. Not a character in the movie questions any of this...
Approximately 40 students attended a forum with members of the search committee, voicing concerns with the diversity of the faculty, the manner in which the opening will be advertised, the potential for curriculum development in non-Western traditions, the feminist perspective and interdisciplinary expertise of the candidates...
...someone with feminist theory, we hope that this person would also have an understanding of religion," said Emily R. Neill, a fourth year doctoral student at the Divinity School and one of the two student members on the search committee...
Thiemann said that for the first time, candidates for other positions in the Divinity School are also being asked if they can teach feminist theory...