Word: feminist
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...made to preserve our theater community and the art we together pursue. If the HPT has ceased to serve, or works against, the needs of current students, then it must be reformed. Conversations with undergraduate actresses have strengthened my belief in this, as well as the fact that a feminist review went up against the Pudding last year and that "Guys and Dolls" has readmitted women to the Pudding stage after a decade's absence...
...feminist, I believe abortion oppresses, degrades and violates women," countered Swallow Prior...
Only in one masterful sequence at the center of the film, when Kapur pulls back the curtain on Elizabeth, rehearsing a momentous address to the bishops of England, does the Queen herself take center stage as a feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally...
Paglia, a professor of humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, is known for her controversial cultural criticism and her position as an "anti-feminist feminist." But last week she started off her speech by saying that "educational reform is the number one issue of my career," especially the state of America's public school system. One expects such a comment to be followed by talk of school funding, vouchers, busing, bilingual education, the condition of inner city schools, teacher testing, charter schools and other components of the national debate on this subject. Many of these issues did arise...
Last week's panel has formed the basis for a much more in-depth discussion of feminism and the role of women at Harvard. The nitty-gritty details get more complicated, of course. The most proactive feminist on the panel defined feminism as a way of life. The conservative males in turn said that feminism was in fact a legal force that had succeeded in its goal of making women equal...