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Schor's scholarship focuses on 19th century French literature and feminist studies...
...generally vented their outrage. "We will no longer beg for our rights from men in power. We will replace them and take power ourselves," Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, told the Washington Post. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "The Senate did more in one week to underscore the critical need for more women in the Senate than feminists have been able to do in 25 years...
This last lesson is perhaps most startling to America's feminist groups. Two weeks ago, backed by angry calls and letters from women across the country, they demonstrated their clout by pressuring the Senate into investigating Anita Hill's story. When Hill walked into the Senate Caucus Room, women across America saw her as the bearer of an old secret about the ugly politics of accommodation between men and women on the job. But by the time Hill walked out of the hearings, a majority of women had decided she did not speak for them...
Since its peak two decades ago, the women's movement has spawned subgroups whose diverse interests range from pushing day care to combating pornography. In some ways, feminist politics have expanded too much to keep women under one tent. In the Thomas-Hill aftermath, feminists took their energy in different directions: Geraldine Jensen, who heads a Toledo-based organization that seeks to strengthen child-support laws, says she plans to use the recent performance of the Senate Judiciary Committee to illustrate to her supporters why tough enforcement legislation has failed. "Now people will understand me when I say that these...
...anything in a comedy as long as its funny. People will come see a comedy no matter what. [With] a black box, artsy feminist performance piece, the only people who will come are feminists. Feminist performance art gives pleasure to feminists...[But] to make people think, who ordinarily wouldn't think, you must go through popular channels...