Word: sexism
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...Sexism and racism are alive and well," She said. "What you do on the college campus reflects what will happen in the world...
...those of you who will never be activists or have positions of power, you can use your ability to vote and to react against sexism to make a difference," she said. "I want every one of you to take the next step in advancing the feminist movement...
...think it should change," says Pat C. Hoy 11, senior tutor. "I don't see it as a problem about sexism at all, I just see it as not the best balance in the house, in any house...
...TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY (Pantheon; $25). By that standard, author Elaine Brown is a genuine radical. She tells an absorbing story of real struggle: how she became the leader of the Black Panther Party, how she and the party battled racism, and how she fought sexism within the group. Her prose is unpretentious and involving. She makes the political personal by recounting her affair with Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers. Newton is revealed as a difficult man, sometimes violent, sometimes vulnerable, always brilliant. In the end, Brown discovers, love is the most demanding political...
...much going on in M. Butterfly I remember someone saying Hwang never takes on one subject when he can take on six. Essentially, I think this play deals with fewer issues than Butterfly. Butterfly attempts to compose a theory of the other which takes into account racism, sexism, imperialism--and tries to create a system in which all these factors work together. This play is basically about race, about whether race is real or mythological, whether it's a construct that has any usefulness...