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Like her contemporary Sylvia Plath, Sexton had a gift of the self- dramatizing and self-destructive kind. She was the mad housewife of Weston, Mass., beautiful if you caught her in the right light, "a possessed witch," as she thought of herself sometimes, "haunting the black air, braver at night." Both Plath and Sexton wound up as cautionary tales. In 1963 Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later...
...Nancy Weston After months of suspense, thirtysomething's writers let her triumph over cancer and bumped off goldilocks Gary instead. But if the show is renewed, viewers may question whether the oh-so-plucky Nancy was worth the trouble. Why did she marry such a jerk, anyway...
...Kath Weston, an assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, said the biggest challenge for scholars today is to recast theoretical work, so that people who are not professors can understand it. Although theoretical work helps to lend Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies legitimacy in academic circles, Weston said scholars must try to reach non-academics if they hope to agitate the public and help spark grassroots political change...
...concern for change remains at the center of Gay and Lesbian Studies," Weston said. "Academia should not self-divorce from the rest of the gay and bisexual community...
...While Weston concentrated on how scholars can reach the public, panelist Jacqueline Zita, associate professor of women's studies at the University of Minnesota, said she was most concerned with recognizing the different interests of gays, lesbians and bisexuals...