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Given the nature of black experience no single academic discipline will provide the training to understand the complexity of the subject. Economics, politics, poetic expression, the history of ideas, sociology and so on intersect when simply describing aspects of this experience. I associate myself with the view that Afro-American...
Divine Presence. Despite such apologies and defenses, at least a few feminist theologians argue that Judaeo-Christian theology is still far too dominated by male concepts. Boston College's Mary Daly, a Roman Catholic laywoman, says a woman's revolution within the church is needed to overturn the...
Nor is all the 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...
"Reason" and "logic" have, in fact, become dirty words-death words. They have been replaced by the life words "feeling" and "impulse." Consciousness-the rational-is presumed to be shallow and unconsciousness-the irrational-to be always interesting, often profound and usually true. Cooper's law: "Truth is an...
"Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness," writes one of the contributors to The Radical Therapist, a kind of underground paper for counterculture therapists. Madness "reinvents our selves," Cooper explains, speaking of "mourning for the madness I never had." Norman Brown (Life Against Death) has spoken of the "blessing," the...