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...changed her mind: criticisms of her admittedly illegal hiring of undocumented Peruvians as servants had grown quite heated, and presidential support had turned decidedly lukewarm. In an exchange of letters released by the White House at 1:22 a.m. Friday, Bill Clinton accepted her pullout "with sadness." Feminist groups immediately began pressing Clinton to name another woman to the job, but a spokesman said the President would not necessarily...
...surprise, then, that Asian American and Latino activism pales in comparison--in numbers and in enthusiasm--to the Black and feminist activism that started in the 60's and continues to this day. Unlike the pseudo-radical and derivative character of Asian-American and Latino-American activism in the university, both Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies have truly radical origins. They were driven by an overwhelming need to articulate the experiences of two distinct groups that were previously suppressed and excluded not only from academic discourse, but from mainstream America in general. They were part of a larger...
...interesting that within the legal community there are eloquent opponents of battered-woman syndrome -- on feminist grounds -- who dislike the label's implication that all battered women are helpless victims of some shared mental disability that prevents them from acting rationally. Social liberals, says N.Y.U.'s Maguigan, typically explain male violence in terms of social or economic pressures. Female violence, on the other hand, is examined in psychological terms. "They look to what's wrong with her and reinforce a notion that women who use violence are, per se, unreasonable, that something must be wrong with her because...
...across people who imagine that Hesse, a highly intelligent artist with deep wells of melancholy and self-doubt, actually committed suicide or was in some way immolated on the altars of a sexist art world. But she wasn't an art martyr, and this sort of lumpen-feminist romanticism is totally beside the point of Hesse's life. She was avid to live and knew that the cancer was killing her just at the moment that her work was reaching its full eloquence. This knowledge was unbearable, but she refused to let it paralyze her as an artist...
...Hillary, gumption to prove she's feminist...