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...legitimate issue for research and publication." Hoping to start the trend is William Leahy, head of English at Brunel University who, later this month, will teach the first ever M.A. course dedicated to the authorship question. "Shakespeare studies already look at his work from so many angles - feminist, post-colonialist, historical," he says. "And I think it's important that the authorship question is one of them." This could be much ado about nothing. Or maybe, one day, the truth will...
Greer, one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the 20th century and author of The Female Eunuch, writes that envy and fear have driven the naysayers: "The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained." This contentious tone colors much of her discussion. Greer argues that upon marriage Anne had not passed "her sell-by date" - the average Elizabethan woman married at 27 - and that as a landholder she could gain little by seducing a "penniless teenage boy, with nothing...
...been formed over countless millennia. Then came feminism, and the claim that apart from some bodily plumbing, males and females were interchangeable, both equally suited for any role in life. As men became more emasculated, boys became more confused. The education system too shifted toward favoring girls and feminist culture, until girls were doing better in school than boys. Fortunately, enough boys seem to survive these disadvantages to take their appropriate place in society as adults. Despite feminist assertions and much "affirmative action," the vast majority of prominent leaders and outstanding exponents of "hard" sciences like physics remain males. Bill...
Also a strong proponent of women’s rights, Crawford kept a personal blog entitled “Nequitia Mea,” on which she described herself as a “pissy feminist Ph.D. candidate and proud...
...Even more than Tenmyouya's stylized samurai or Matsui's feminist ghosts, Machida's surreal and often frankly sexual paintings-like Little Boy: Good Luck Talisman-seem to have little in common with staid 19th century forms. But Machida says artistic categories are "just brand names," so she doesn't feel as though she is violating some unwritten code. "I admire Japanese painting, but I learned from the tradition without even noticing it." And that's the point. As diverse as they are, as different as they are from their flowers-and-Mount Fuji predecessors, the neo-nihonga painters aren...