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...hierarchy to come up with a coherent policy on women to guide their flock of 58 million. The bishops are already into their ninth year of trying to agree on a pastoral letter, and the longer it takes, the more rancorous the debates become. Feminist lobbyists, antifeminist lobbyists, even a few bishops, proclaim the project a disaster and say no letter should be produced...
...same time, the demand for women's rights and the bishops' halfway efforts to accommodate it have goaded female traditionalists into action. In 1984, Helen Hull Hitchcock of St. Louis met a few friends to write up a complaint about feminist inroads in the church. Today 50,000 people have endorsed their manifesto, and Hitchcock is the full-time director of Women for Faith & Family. If the left sees the church dominated by oppressive males, Hitchcock contends that "the power structure in the church has been largely subverted by people who no longer accept the very basic dogmas...
...woman serves on the committee, and critical legal studies scholars say they consider her unreceptive to the concerns of feminist candidates...
Various law professors have suggested that there is systematic discrimination in the hiring process. Professor of Canstitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe pointed to the parody of an article by murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug in the spoof issue of the Law Review as evidence of institutional sexism at the Law School...
...annual spoof edition of theHarvard Law Review, which includes a parodyof an article by murdered feminist legal scholarMary Joe Frug, touches off a wave of protest atthe Law School...