Word: hetero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people. Homophobia is a pernicious force of social control. The same homophobia that makes me afriad to go to a dance with my boyfriend prevents Congress from adequately funding AIDS education programs. Meanwhile, the disease spreads and threatens everyone. That same homophobia may discourage some women--gay, bi, or hetero--from taking a Women's Studies course because they fear being stereotyped. Homophobia involves us all, regardless of who we love, or how we define our sexualities...
...think twice before denying homophobia around us. The Crimson recently paraphrased students as saying that the Saturday meeting was about deciding "how much toleration of different sexual orientations is necessary." That very statement is fraught with homophobia. Total toleration and even celebration of all sexual orientations--homo, bi, and hetero--is not only necessary, but is in the best interests...
...SOPHISTICATION of current-day feminist thinking is slowly leaving behind the tired battlefields of ideological tug-of-wars over sexual libidos. The new challenge it confronts, instead, is one of internal harmony; of coordinating theory and practice within a newly mobilized body hetero-politic. Even the notorious schism between French and Anglo feminisms--one noted for its theoretical avant-garde elegance, the other for its sensible economics--is really a matter of secret vanity; in actuality, it is an intellectualized space for self-consciously trying out new images of both feminists and women, thus transforming their cultural representations through selfexpression...
...counterpart, lesbian author Kate Millet, would have agreed wholeheartedly; Millet's talk on "Sex and Censorship" frequently played to the crowd with lines such as "the gay shall lead the way...out of the hetero-straitjacket," which provided welcome relief from tense differences...
...alternate society." A married daughter, Sabine, is not politically inclined, though she has taken a compromising position with Hendler, her security guard, and is expecting his child. By fast count the novel contains over 70 other characters engaged in various plays, stances, conspiracies and love affairs both hetero-and homosexual...