Word: consent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, Jackson has made headlines and sparked controversy by orchestrating the release of three American POWs from Kosovo. Jackson went ahead on his mission without the consent of the State Department...
...most obvious danger is a woman's own passivity toward her situation. Silent consent. In this post-feminist age, the politics of elaborating and emphasizing differences are unfashionable. Most women at Harvard would hesitate to label themselves feminists, a term which connotes bra-burning radicals and militant man-haters. And of course, feminists never wear lipstick or shave their legs...
...most obvious danger is a woman's own passivity toward her situation. Silent consent. In this post-feminist age, the politics of elaborating and emphasizing differences are unfashionable. Most women at Harvard would hesitate to label themselves feminists, a term which connotes bra-burning radicals and militant man-haters. And of course, feminists never wear lipstick or shave their legs...
McDonagh, author of Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent, said she has tried to create a stronger legalistic argument for abortion not based on pure choice, but on the necessity of consent...
...issue is no longer whether it's a women's right to choose; rather it's her right to consent to what [the pregnancy] is doing to her body," McDonagh said...