Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipated that last week's panel on feminism at Harvard would suffer from such an unstructured debate, and to a certain extent it did. After all, as the panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...
What I took from the debate was the firm belief that the role of TFs in calling on students, male and female alike, should be the subject of a formal study whose results would be released to the community. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, sitting in the audience, referred to a study done by the Bok Center which revealed a gap between the number of men and women called on in section. How about actively publicizing those findings and doing another study to check on the current situation...
Once again, race has consumed the nation's attention. The news that scientists have shown through DNA testing that Thomas Jefferson had at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings has been the subject of discussion, debate and numerous opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines...
Harvard Medical School Professor M. Judah Folkman was the subject of much media fanfare in May, when his groundbreaking cancer research on mice was touted as paving the way to a cure for cancer...
...often a women's ideas can be obscured by comments about her hair style, the color of her suit, her figure and, most disturbingly, her degree of femininity--none of which are the subject of comment when male political leaders speak. When President Clinton first appointed Madeleine K. Albright secretary of state, the media was more interested in analyzing her "manly" style than her policies. Ally McBeal spends most of her time fretting over men and primping herself to look attractive, while male heroes of the Harrison Ford mold only have time to give their wives and girlfriends a peck...