Word: feministic
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...dedication to understanding and questioning led her into a new field of research in the mid-1980s. Benhabib is now a leading scholar of feminist political and social theory and was prominent in the debates surrounding Professor of Education Carol Gilligan's "In a Different Voice...
...professor Sela Benhabib, a specialist in continental and feminist political theory, offers new core Moral Reasoning 50, "The Public and Private in Politics, Morality...
...Marrying of Ann Leete, written in 1899 when the author was 22 and promptly dismissed as "a practical joke" by the Times of London. A century later, it feels startlingly fresh and new, its language conversational rather than expository, its events surprising yet rooted in character, its sensibility feminist yet faithful to its periwigged 18th century setting. Whereas in Shaw everyone seems to be on a lecture platform, Granville Barker's characters appear to talk to themselves alone. Not one speech in Leete is more than six lines long; many are broken into half-articulated reverie. Granville Barker's topics...
...feminist might argue that this proves the male is inherently less intuitive than the female. Or, more radically, that exploited womankind has better reason to be on guard than guys do. Woody Allen might argue that it is just plain funnier if supposedly ditsy Carol Lipton (Diane Keaton) insists there's something odd about the death of a neighbor while her husband Larry (Allen) patronizes her misgivings...
...wing p.c. may be the opposition to Tara J. O'Toole, Clinton's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Energy. O'Toole's nomination has been held up by two Republican Senators because -- and follow this closely, please -- she belongs to a study group that once had the name Marxist Feminist Group. The group, which meets about three times a year, changed its name to Northeast Feminist Scholars years before O'Toole joined it. The Administration wrote the Senate that O'Toole "has never endorsed Marxist theory, nor has she ever had the impression that any other members of N.F.S. held...