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Eager for a showdown at the anthropology convention, opponents of sociobiology tried to push through a ham-handed resolution condemning the new science as "an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society." The resolution also deplored sociobiology's pernicious influences on the young, through its use in school texts...
...traditionally been prohibited from participating. By focusing on obstetrics, she ignores a parallel process through which the modern medical profession discredited all traditional medicine, relegating male healers as well as female midwives to disrepute. Rich justifies her paranoia with the claim that men will always support the status quo, because "however much it has failed them, however much it divides them from themselves, [patriarchy] is still their order, confirming them in privilege." Maybe she is right. But she offers no serious discussion of alternatives to patriarchy, unless it be test tube babies. Over and over again, she implies that only...
...perhaps, that failure is her book's major flaw--nowhere does she undertake a sympathetic examination of the effect of the status quo on anybody other than women. If the structure of mothering in society were really the only source of world problems--Rich blames patriarchy for every problem from anomie to malnutrition--her argument might be valid; if women alone were exploited under the present system, then repossessing our bodies would feed everyone. Her paranoia blinds her, forcing her to reach a puerile conclusion. Which is too bad, because she starts out with an uncontestable argument. It's just...
After months and months of debate, that proposal was killed and the status quo retained. Opponents in the Social Sciences, who felt left out by the plan, waged vigorous opposition to the committee's report and were instrumental in the defeat of its measures...
...President who sets foot in this town without a full briefing on dynamic inaction, decision-postponement patterns and creative status quo cannot go very far," says Boren. "I've studied Carter, and I think he has great potential if he will just listen. If he does not, he will be residuated* into oblivion. Carter must understand that in this city we cut red tape lengthwise. He should know the difference between vertical and linear mumbling (a mumble can never be quoted). After all, bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean...