Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel, The Handmaid's Tale, author Margaret E. Atwood envisions a frightening future for Harvard. A feminist poet and writer, Atwood received her master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1962 and spent two stints studying at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the early...
Hanssen, who taught in both the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the Department of Literature this year, has offered courses on wide spectrum of topics including German feminist thought, German national identity, and Friedrich Nietzsche...
...goal is not so much to build one grand argument but rather, she says, to "make the books stories in their own right." Nevertheless, a feminist, anti-Freudian thread runs throughout her work. Unlike Bruno Bettelheim, whose classic work The Uses of Enchantment puts a Freudian gloss on fairy tales, Warner believes the stories "represent a way of thinking about problems, particularly family problems: intimacy, sexuality and practical areas like money, dowries, property and hierarchy--who has the power to free women from their poverty?" In her new book she examines the way fear and pleasure have become intertwined...
...behaving amazingly girlishly. She goes a bit gooey when she talks about the nameless "him" for whom, she confesses, she is making a compilation tape so he can think of her while she is away in America. And like regular women everywhere--women who aren't, say, feminist icons who have written life-changing books like The Female Eunuch--she confesses, "I'm waiting for the phone to ring." It's not that Greer advocates such behavior--"I think it's ridiculous that I won't ring a man. I'm a '50s girl"--but there...
Rarely will you find anyone so passionate about her life's work as May Stevens, artist, feminist and political activist. She may look petite, but her ideas are overpowering and inspiring qualities inherent to her visual artistry...