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...Freedman'68 says saw a disparity between the encouraging messages Radcliffe professed and the unequal treatment of women at the University--a which gap inspired her career as a professor of law specializing in feminist issues...
...most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill -- and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February...
Even more irresponsible and annoying is Jong's treatment of the "feminist," a term she almost always follows with "zealot" and applies without distinction to such diverse thinkers as Kate Millett, Germaine Greet and Andrea Dworkin. Jong says that she "respect[s] the courage of those feminists who have come forward to illuminate the nature of pornography against women," but she shows no consciousness of the evolving nature of that illumination and makes no effort to convey the complexity of the American feminist debate on pornography. Complicated theoretical issues are dismissed with reductive summaries: "The pen, as so many feminist...
...grade-inflation argument is to Black students have we decided that public sexism doesn't require a public response--or, worse, that Mansfield is right. The atmosphere of complacency and inertia surrounding this issue scares me it simply isn't safe to assume that everyone at Harvard is a feminist and will see Mansfield's comments as the predictable, tired, sexist statements they are. I am grateful to Mansfield, at any rate, for reminding me of the acute and persistent need for public and loud defense of women's rights and capabilities. Women at Harvard and else-where simply cannot...
...article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living in the home of his fiance, controversial feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon. Malcolm continues under contract to the New Yorker, where her editor was her husband Gardner Botsford. She conceded on the witness stand that her techniques have "freaked out" colleagues -- not to mention most other practitioners of her craft...