Word: wolfs
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...such as the great standoff over the subject of victimhood. On the pro-victimhood side are the legions of domestic-abuse specialists who see Lorena Bobbitt as one more martyr in women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation, witch burnings and the like. Time to stop whining, the anti- victimhood feminists say, and go for the power...
Curator of Archives and Manuscripts Richard J. Wolf, who is in charge of the Benda papers at Countway Library, confirmed that access to the files, which had been open, is now being restricted. He would not comment further...
...order to seal the documents came in a two-page letter sent over the weekend to Wolf by an attorney in the University's Office of General Counsel, Harvard officials said...
...there are strengths in her work as well. For one thing, Wolf is an engaging raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
...Wolf is also savvy about the role of TV -- especially the Thomas-Hill hearings and daytime talk shows -- in radicalizing women, including homemakers, who are often ignored by political organizers. The heroine of her book is Anita Hill, the person most responsible for what Wolf calls the "genderquake." Women felt galvanized by seeing this tenured law professor who "spoke with the accuracy and measured tone of a well-trained attorney, and did not play the victim, weep or rely on recounting the destruction of her life to make her case." Typically, the author does not develop her thoughts about Hill...