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...center at Hilles; yet, the idea struck a discordant note with some and incited knee-jerk criticisms from students who didn’t know what it was about. The plan’s antagonists were quick to condemn the center as just some half-baked ultra-feminist plot or a token effort to recognize women. Students who oppose the proposal, however, need to do some serious reassessment...
...Jesus Die?" Was a clear exposition of traditional theological interpretations of his death [April 12]. But it did not include the insights of liberation and feminist theologies. Latin American liberation theology, born in the 1960s amid that region's poverty and oppression, includes a focus on the social dimensions of sin and grace. Thus the death of Jesus and his Resurrection are a liberation from the power of both personal sin and social sin, such as injustice, racism and sexism. Feminist theologians ask, Can a Saviour who is male save women? Some say yes, seeing in the death of Jesus...
...random Saturday a few weeks ago, former FM Exectuive Amelia E. Lester ’05 and I cc’d Chopra to invite him to a private viewing of the recent feminist, anti-imperialist adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—which we both had to watch for class. Depsite Chopra’s response of “I promise I’ll be there” (he loves those feminist adaptations), he did not show up. Neither...
Truth be told, feminists haven’t always been responsive to the concerns of working-class women. American feminism as a social movement has been located in the white middle class, and the leaders of the feminist mainstream are only starting to think through the ways that race, class and gender intersect to marginalize women of color. Feminism often valorizes women who can take days off from work in order to attend a protest, while effectively ignoring women who cannot be so cavalier about losing a day’s wages. On the other hand, American labor movements from...
...their job description without any additional compensation. These women are overworked, underpaid, anxious about their job security, and on top of all that Harvard has the gall to ask administrative assistants to stay late after a reception in order to wash the dishes? This climate of disrespect is a feminist issue, and Harvard women should sit up and take notice...