Word: feministic
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Politicos tend to present the abortion debate as an unbridgeable divide: One can either be for the rights of the fetus or for the rights of the woman. In a clever reversal, the self-termed “pro-life feminist” movement, spearheaded by the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) is attempting to have it both ways. They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women. Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than...
...would expect, the readings discuss the thoughts of those with a wide range of opinions and backgrounds, from proponents of race-based affirmative action to partisans of the class-based variety, from a “self described ‘forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two’” to a member of a “Black Nationalist church with a Pan Africanist philosophy.” While a couple of the readings dwell upon the figure of the wrong-headed, young, white man, unable to acknowledge his racial privilege...
...been lured into the class by one of her female friends. For her, it's a way of filling an idle evening and getting a little exercise. For the teacher - played with arresting fire by Karina Fernandez - flamenco is life itself, a way of staking out and defending feminist territory. Her passion for the dance is obviously fueled by an unhappy love affair, the emotional details of which pour forth in the course of her instruction. Fernandez has only two scenes, but they are as potent as any you are likely to see in any movie and, like the rest...
...disqualified the match, had they been public. However, there is a heavy responsibility on the groom: if he has relatives who could have observed the disfigurement by checking out his fiance in the womens' bath but neglected to do have them do so, he can't complain. This suggests (feminist complaints notwithstanding) that culpability in sub-prime crisis does not lie solely on the mortgage broker who glided over the fact that payments ballooned in the third year; but also on the buyer who happily neglected to read the fine print: : "Ignorance of the facts is no defense," Diamond says...
...Goodman’s activity in progressive affairs dates back to her time in Cambridge. As a Harvard undergraduate, Goodman was involved in the divestment campaign from South Africa and played a role in the revival of Seven Sisters, a feminist magazine. Her anthropology thesis examining the dangers of Depot Provera, a contraceptive with widespread use in the developing world despite it’s banning in the United States, was featured in Multinational Monitor...