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...disappear and not contact her family, but in a way that was her prerogative. And in a way, Keelin is the presumptuous one, going out looking for someone who doesn't want to be found. Aisling...is a person who escapes. She doesn't have a set gender, she doesn't cling to her past--she just blows off her past. She doesn't have any country or nationality. She doesn't stick with one lover. She is really someone who is escaping the boundaries of our bourgeois existence. I think she's an adventurer, a mad prophet...
Throughout the poem, Murray sympathetically and sometimes even bitterly reconstructs what she considers are the primary reasons Annie hasn't found the place in history that she deserves, ultimately blaming Annie's age and gender for her rejection from collective memory. Old women simply don't beautiful symbols make, and memory, according to Murray, often prescribes to strict aesthetic parameters...
...student interested in intellectual growth and academic dialogue, I am particularly disheartened by Adam Kovacevich's "As an X, I feel Y" (Opinion, March 15). Kovacevich argues that the introduction of identity, particularly gender and ethnicity, into academic discourse "can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry." This criticism on the part of a white male, who can easily ignore his gender and ethnicity in all aspects of his daily life, to be a patronizing example of what Jean-Paul Sartre describes as "condescending liberalism...
...student interested in intellectual growth and academic dialogue, I am particularly disheartened by Adam Kovacevich's "As an X, I feel Y" (Opinion, March 15). Kovacevich argues that the introduction of identity, particularly gender and ethnicity, into academic discourse "can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry." This criticism on the part of a white male, who can easily ignore his gender and ethnicity in all aspects of his daily life, to be a patronizing example of what Jean-Paul Sartre describes as "condescending liberalism...
...women and sexual minorities have been excluded from it. Capitalism and the Enlightenment have made women, gay men and lesbians more visible, but they have not allowed them to speak fully. And as Ambinder's statement that "Harvard needs fewer English Ph.D.'s who study sex and gender" implies, maybe they still do not have that right. JENNIFER E. MOON'99 March...