Word: feministic
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Prefacing his comments by saying that he was a feminist, Pinker stressed the importance of distinguishing between the moral and empirical claims about gender differences...
...genetics that are critiqued in the women’s studies department,” Wexler said. Her thesis concluded that Harvard’s science departments treat certain differences in the performance of the sexes as innate (sound familiar?), while WGS classes focus on “feminist social biology,” Wexler said...
Graham lauded the “daunting courage it took not only to be a political feminist but to write poetry” during a time when the field was strongly dominated...
...FEMINIST. Male jealousy is part of the structure of patriarchy that keeps all women in line. Women are viewed as exclusive property. Husbands monitor or cut off all social relations between wives and other men, and the economic dependence of women on men is part of a system to make certain that women will have little opportunity to stray...
Friday is eclectic enough to agree with most of these views. "I've been through all the literature, and I find it all illuminating," she says. To her, the feminist view is the most urgent because the ancient male structures that ward off jealousy are crumbling. "Men have traditionally married down, stuck the women at home and kept them dependent so they wouldn't have to be jealous," she says. "Women didn't like sex anyway. Now women like sex, they control contraceptives, and they are becoming economically independent...