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...other hand, conventional local anesthetics have the drawback of working on all neurons, including those responsible for touch and movement, sometimes causing numbness and paralysis...
...push for physical perfection through artificial means such as tanning and plastic surgery—is, Pollitt says, a waste of time. “You might as well be smoking and getting some pleasure out of it,” she says. For Pollitt, the movement towards physical perfection is connected to our current capitalist moment. “The pressure to be 24/7 hot is very intense and very stressful,” she says. “There is a premium for perfection and no one is perfect.” Even though feminism isn?...
...women and men, women and their communities, and women and history. She may not provide any easy resolutions, but she succeeds in making readers curious about the condition of womanhood and its development throughout history—a history that stretches much farther back than the suffrage and feminist movements of more recent times. Ulrich began writing the book after its titular quotation—which she authored some 30 years earlier—became a wildly popular catchphrase not only among female empowerment groups, but also with girls looking to make some extra cash with self-printed T-shirts...
Yesterday’s rally began with a speech from the leader of the Harvard Burma Action Movement, a senior who uses the pseudonym “Shanti Maung” to protect family members still living in Myanmar...
...Seldom Make History,” at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday night. In the book, the titular one-liner-cum-maxim serves as a focal point for what Ulrich describes as the “renaissance in historical scholarship that began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize...