Word: walkerism
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...campus will host two programs this fall exploring the situation for women. With last week's reading by Alice Walker, the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies committee kicked off an ambitious series titled "Gender at the Millennium," to inquire into the issues affecting women and men as the millennium approaches...
Last week, Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and several other novels, kicked-off the series with a call for fathers and daughters to reconnect. She also read from her latest novel, By the Light of My Father's Eyes...
...Fathers must teach us from birth," Walker told the crowd of 900 in Sanders Theatre. "There has to be discussion. There has to be solidarity, and it has to start really early. Fathers have to be friends to their daughters...
...Walker also emphasized the need for female sexuality to be explored and expressed...
...Calling Walker "a real visionary--a person whose political and moral imagination is so much needed as the [21st] century looms," Pellegrini said the author's message was an important one to have at the beginning of the series...