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...Martha Vicinus explains the problem with defining sexuality from an “overwhelmingly male and heterosexual” point of view: “Sexuality in general is defined in terms of the male orgasm; it is like a powerful force that builds up until it is spent in a single ejaculation.” When we have equality, we might also be able to envision a sexuality that doesn’t require objects...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Carol J. Adams | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...visible [as Wilson was, but] she is considered a feminist and, in the past, would occasionally teach a course on women's studies," says Martha Vicinus, a professor of English and women's studies at Michigan...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Taps Former Colleague for Radcliffe | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

Them (Warner) are ants, but not the kind one usually shares a picnic with. Caught in a radioactive fallout from an atomic-test explosion at Alamogordo, a desert colony of Camponotus vicinus has suffered mutation into a race of creatures more than ten feet long. They are discovered by Myrmecologist Edmund Gwenn after two people disappear in the desert and two others are found dead with their carcasses full of formic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Monsters | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Horse. Won by Vicinus (captain) (M. I. T.); second, Turner (M. I. T.); third, tie between H. A. Wood '24 (B) and Brink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. GYM TEAM WINS MEET | 3/7/1923 | See Source »

Horse Won by Vicinus (M); second, Turner (M); third, Brink (M); fourth, H. A. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. CAPTURES GYM MEET | 2/17/1923 | See Source »

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