Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than simply black studies. But in the ebb and flow of confrontation and negotiation and struggle, it was pared down to the notion of black studies. And again that flowed simply out of the level at which white people generally could enter into the discussion which was a direct function of how they perceived all that was going on among black students, that was the identity question again...
What they were talking about, or what they were challenging the university with after all the confrontations were over with was, what is actually the political function of education. What is the university as an institution in relationship to the larger society? And some of them began to see that education is essentially political...
...Typing. Then there is the fact that among most ground-dwelling primates, males are dominant and have as a major function the protection of females and offspring. Some research suggests that this is true even when the young are raised apart from adults, which seems to mean that they do not learn their roles from their society...
...feminist art program, the first in the country, offers courses in female art history taught by women for women only. But the first step in creating an audience for feminist art is to attract people to see it, and Womanhouse performed that function. "People who don't go to art galleries feel comfortable about coming to a house, and a lot of them went away very moved," says Chicago. They were particularly struck by a tableau in which a real woman sat in a heavily perfumed bedroom, methodically applying and removing makeup, over and over again. Said...
...about which women should take them, and in what strength they should be prescribed. Physicians, however, generally are persuaded that the Pill is safe for most women, and so are researchers. They are working on such improvements as 1) a once-a-month Pill, 2) an injection that would function for three to six months and 3) a capsule implanted under the skin that releases hormones for a year or more...