Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attributable to the co-optation of the anti-abortion position by a fundamentalist fringe. Their wellintentioned arguments--couched in terms of Jesus and the Bible--do more harm than good when it comes to persuading Americans why abortion is the unjust policy, which it really is. As the prominent social theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argued, even the best-intentioned reformer who uses anachronistic arguments--and the fundamentalist language is surely anachronistic and non-persuasive for most Americans--"strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying to break...
Joan W. Scott, a social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, discussed the development of women's history as a field and the importance of integrating women into the study of history as a whole...
...inter-collegiate conference, sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS Education and Outreach (AEO), seeks to establish a network of Boston area colleges. Founded last year, AEO is an undergraduate organization devoted to educating students about the prevention of AIDS as well as the social ramifications of the spread of the disease...
Twelve representatives from Boston College, Brandeis University, Newbury College, Simmons College and MIT listened as speakers outlined both the social and medical issues surrounding AIDS...
...social inexperience and conflicting messages about sex can lead students to act unwisely in sexual relations, said Christine Lyman, health counselling coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania...