Word: warriorism
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...Somerville (Massachusetts) Legal Services. "Harm that is done to women is seen as a personal, private or cultural matter. Genital mutilation has not been seen as a type of harm." The feminist mainstream has been particularly galvanized by the highly personalized documentary film and book on female-genital mutilation, Warrior Marks, co-authored by novelist Alice Walker. Walker sees it as a heinous form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by "the feeling of being overpowered and thoroughly dominated by those you are duty bound to respect." About 25 countries in Africa engage in mutilation: an estimated 98% of women are "circumcised...
...particular, Yang singled out for criticism Amy Tan, author of the popular Joy Luck Club, and Maxine Hong Kingston, who wrote Woman Warrior...
...world of the Iliad is a foreign world, a warrior culture," he says. "St. Augustine was a Black from North Africa...
What does bear scrutiny here is the degree to which Paglia's own posturings have been highly marketable and even more highly lucrative. Presenting herself as, variously, the ultimate outsider; the last remaining "authentic" voice of feminism; a battle-weary warrior for truth, justice, and the 'merican way, poor, poor Professor Paglia hits the lecture circuit, appears on talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman...
...tragicomedy staged by its prolific author, Alan Ayckbourn, for London's Royal Shakespeare Company, four unhappy middle-class people are enhancing dull lives with a homemade role- playing game a la Dungeons & Dragons. They speak pseudo Old English mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests. By the end, two of the four are certifiably...