Word: webster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as marriage and three kids. She definitely expects her husband -- present or future -- to do his share of the dusting, the diapering, the dinner and dishes. She would be outraged were she paid less than a male colleague for doing equal work. Ask about the Supreme Court's Webster decision last summer allowing states more leeway to restrict abortions: she'll probably bristle about a woman's right to chose...
...Princeton University, which sent 120 students to the demonstration, there has been a significant increase in political activity since the July 3 decision, according to student activist Jennifer Weiner. "I agree with people who say Webster was the best thing that happened to the pro-choice movement," she says...
...homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets...
...fact, as the "decade of apathy" draws to a close, many say the U.S Supreme Court's recent Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ruling, which upheld Missouri laws restricting abortion, has reawakened political activism on college campuses...
...students themselves say that the mood on America's campuses has changed since the Webster ruling sparked fear that students may lose a right that has existed for them for as long as they can remember...