Word: feministic
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...response to these questions about women and the law, feminist legal scholars from around the country said that for the most part, the laws currently on the books are sufficient to deal with sexual harassment cases. The problem is that while the laws exist, they are not taken seriously or enforced, they said...
Part of the problem in society's lack of understanding of these problems, feminist legal theorists say, is that the law is rarely seen from women's perspective. And crimes such as sexual harassment and rape, which victimize primarily women, make all the more necessary the need to reexamine who is writing and interpreting the laws, they...
...these masochistic dramas expressing women's insecurity about their feminist-era advances? Or simply the exploitative shrewdness of the mostly male producers who concoct them? The films smartly cover all bases. They put women in the time-tested role of victim, yet focus on strong characters who, for all their troubles, triumph in the end. The dramas become parables of feminist self-realization. For Mills, things start to turn around in prison when she learns to depend on no one but herself. "You wanna get out of here?" an inmate tells her. "Grow up!" Fine...
...work is important insofar as it brings together a number of different trends in modern critical theory," Burnheimer said. "She is not only a feminist, although she is a feminist, but also she works from the point of view of a philosopher and has strong views as a literary historian...
...written some really major books," Suleiman said. "She has given a new interpretation of some of the 19th-century French writers. She is a superb scholar of 19th-century French literature, a very good literary theorist and a feminist...