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...oblivion that made Mary Wollstonecraft sit down late in 1791 and in six weeks write the 300 pages of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Earlier that year, she had broken out of a shell of ladylike anonymity to print a bylined edition of her previously unsigned pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Man. It was a loosely reasoned but passionate answer to Edmund Burke's reservations about the French Revolution. It made Mary Wollstonecraft at 32 a popular radical writer, whose name was thereafter frequently mentioned along with that of her friend Thomas Paine...
...statement in a pamphlet attracting prospective students specifically promising "more than half the faculty are men" was cited in the hearing as evidence of discriminatory attitudes. However, the statement has not been printed for 7 years, Dickinson said
...Echo, a book boosting the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, is still giving speeches around the country as head of a group called Stop ERA. The John Birch Society has its nationwide staff of 90 men churning out arguments against the amendment. Sample headline for a Birch pamphlet: LOOK OUT! THEY'RE PLANNING TO DRAFT YOUR DAUGHTER! Says Birch Society Official Wallis Wood: "It's a very emotional issue-almost like sex education was five years...
...couple of years ago Gerry camping products came out with this ingenious winter mountaineering pamphlet entitled "If your Feet Get Cold Put a Hat on." Pretty profound stuff for a sporting goods hand...
...effort by students to obtain some type of dignity out of a position of powerlessness. They sought to gain a say in the daily decision-making process. In their attempts to transform the institution of Southern, black students maintained a clear distinction between the educational system. In their pamphlet, "Support Your Struggle," Students United wrote: "These are the same capitalistic and imperialistic forces [the financial interests that run the Louisiana black community] which grant various monies to Southern University such as Gulf Oil Company, IBM, etc.... Gulf Oil aids Portugal in her atrocities against African People...