Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although I am not a Harvard student I felt that I have to write you and express my opinion. I am a 20-year old woman who is enraged by your recent refusal to print a Playboy ad for models in the Harvard Crimson. I consider your refusal to be absurd, puritanical and sexist...
Whether a woman chooses to pose for Playboy or not should be between her photographer and herself. It is none of your business. Women have the right to decide for themselves what their actions and lifestyles should be. Refusing to run Playboy's ad is denying the women of Harvard free access to information about what choices they have available to them...
...children who have to be protected from advertising that you think may be harmful to them--like children being protected from sugared cereal ads. Perhaps some of the radical feminist groups may applaud your action, but many of them have never learned what liberation means. Liberation means that each woman should have the right to decide how she will live her own life, based on all information which should be freely, available to her, and without coercive pressure from others. (And that includes coercive pressure from the feminists...
GOLDA MEIR fascinated a world that for the most part believed that no woman in her seventies could effectively run the government of a major nation. But through her long and distinguished career, Meir proved the world wrong. When she died last week at the age of 80, still another courageous facet of her personality came to light: she had been receiving secret radiation therapy for lymphoma for the last 13 years...
...heroines came late to the pages of the comics. Once there, they traced a colorful road, from Mamma of The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, to the flappers of the '20s and spunky private detectives, aviatrixes and reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe...