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Dresses Up. The retail business is sprinkled with sensitive economic barometers. Bernard Galitzki, owner of a Portland, Ore., fabric-store chain, watches women's dresses. "In a recession, women buy sportswear or no clothes at all," he says. "A healthy dress business means that women expect their husbands to take them out more." Women's secondhand dress shops provide another indicator. Last autumn the clothes on the racks of some shops were three years old; women were hanging on to their old fashions instead of buying more recent ones-a clear sign of hard times. Lately there...
...consider themselves "ex-nuns." A free-form, geographically dispersed group (32 states, Canada and England) called Sisters for a Christian Community (S.F.C.C.) was founded in 1970 to "experiment and pioneer new forms of religious life for the 21st century." Essential to the undertaking, says Founding Sister Lillanna Kopp of Portland, Ore., is the elimination of the bureaucratic, authoritarian structures that have driven American nuns out of traditional religious orders by the tens of thousands since the Vatican Council closed in 1965. Since that year, the number of U.S. nuns has dropped from 180-000 to 150,000-far more than...
...Pearce Williams, for one, calls them "rather silly," "worthless," and "a lot of nonsense." His argument: "A lot of these courses are not scholarly, they're ideological. They're out to indoctrinate rather than illuminate." Teachers of women's studies reject such criticisms. "Actually," observes Portland State Professor Nancy Porter, "consciousness raising is what education is all about." Professors Annette Baxter and Suzanne Wemple of Barnard agree: "If we acknowledge that the purpose of a liberal arts curriculum is not merely to provide preprofessional preparation for our students but also to give them an appreciation of their...
...consciousness raising limited to women. John Willems, a senior at Portland State University, where some 800 students are currently enrolled in 18 different women's studies courses, notes that the men in such classes have developed a new style of behavior. "They are much more open on an emotional level," he says, "and they aren't as involved in the ritual struggle for dominance. The movement demands that they become more human, less rational and more in touch with their feelings, that they discover women as people...
Engstrom worked for the Audubon Society in Portland, Maine, writing for its newsletter and studying problems of stream pollution by paper mills...