Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Those who knew her at Brandeis, from which she graduated with honors after studying French literature, and at the Sorbonne, where she studied literature and philosophy, describe her as brilliant but also introverted to the point of aloofness. They recall little political activity beyond civil rights sit-ins. But she has said that during her college years she came under the philosophical and personal influence of Marxist Herbert Marcuse. It was he who suggested that she switch her focus from literature to philosophy...
...Civil rights for women is an old cause being revived with a special kind of vehemence in an age of generalized protest and turmoil that questions nearly all established institutions and many traditional values. The prospect of the hand that rocks the cradle also rocking the boat can be frightening. But it is also freighted, as the best of the radicals insist, with a potential for enormous good for both sexes. As Kate Millett says: "We really don't have many fatuous hopes of taking over. We would like, very much, a fair shake. We are each half...
...civil rights movement, in an ironic way, created additional converts to the feminist cause. During the Southern turmoil of the middle '60s, many women volunteers found that sexist discrimination extended even to the revolution. "Civil rights," says one organizer, "has always been a very male-dominated movement." Most radical organizations saw to it that the "chicks" operated the mimeograph machines and scampered out for coffee while the men ran the show...
While rap groups build common awareness of problems, national and state legal codes offer women a reasonably effective way of combatting sex discrimination. Section 703 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from hiring, firing, or in other ways discriminating against any individual for reasons of race, color, religion or sex. Complainants who approach the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington either begin the legal process there or, if their own state has similar laws, are told to go back to their home state for assistance. In New York State's case, the State Division of Human Rights...
...major reason for the effectiveness of the civil rights legislation is simply the threat it poses. To protest male-female segregation in New York Times classified ads, for example, NOW staged an ad-lib protest in 1967. The Times desegregated...