Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill--you're merely...
...spent last summer in Korea, interviewing members of a nascent feminist movement and middle-class housewives about issues of importance to them...
Critiquing Jurgen Habermas' appraisal of the feminist movement as a politics of withdrawal, Song saw in the Korean feminist associations a preparatory politics as academics and full-time housewives began to articulate the generalizable interests of women...
Degrees will also be bestowed upon philanthropist and diplomat Walter H. Annenberg, presidential policy advisor William T. Coleman Jr., social and feminist historian Natalie Zemon Davis, French historian Francois Furet, dancer Judith A. Jamison, philanthropist Oseola McCarty, physicist Charles P. Slichter '45 and National Institutes of Health director Harold E. Varmus...
Davis, who specializes in feminist social history, is the author Women in the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. She collaborated on the 1983 French film "The Return of Martin Guerre." Today, she will get an LL.D...