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03 Jul 08
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Hillary is not, as is too often alleged, the first woman to run for president:
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incendiary New York Times op-ed defending Hillary declared that “gender is probably the most restricting force in American life”—another highly questionable generalization
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The US president symbolizes and unifies a vast nation and must also serve as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, which puts special pressure on women seeking that role
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Hence, it’s time to reassess. Where has feminism been, and where is it going?
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Two technological innovations—cable TV and the World Wide Web—
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Suddenly, there was a riot of alternative points of view.
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Iraq, gender issues were even further sidelined by questions of life and death and the clash of civilizations in an era of terrorism.
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feminism as an organized movement began in the mid-nineteenth century, inspired by the movement to abolish slavery
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Feminism was therefore keyed to the expansion of liberty to an oppressed group
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democracy: it is no coincidence that feminism was born in America and
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Second, feminist theory has failed to acknowledge how much the emergence of modern feminism owes to capitalism and the industrial revolution,
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were formed or influenced by religion.
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It was in Quaker meetings, where men and women were treated as equals, that women first learned the art of public speaking.
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Sexuality outside of traditional marriage was seen as a danger that had to be curtailed by moral norms.
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Margaret Sanger, who was the foster mother of Planned Parenthood
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was a public adherent of eugenics,
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It was the frontier states, where men and women worked side by side doing manual labor, that first viewed women as equals, whereas the East was still ruled by the genteel persona of the “lady,” with her code of delicacy and decorum.
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British feminists, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, were paradoxically more aggressive, more drawn to militant confrontation and direct action.
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during, and after World War One in both England and the US was not necessarily anti-woman per se but in some cases may have been a comprehensible response to what had become an ideological extremism and fanaticism in some suffragists.
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I would maintain that inspiring female role models are always crucial to demonstrate what personal ambition and initiative can accomplish and to model an attitude of pride and self-respect
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02 Jul 08
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01 Jul 08
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As a veteran of pro-sex feminism who still endorses pornography and prostitution, I say more power to all these chaste young women who are defending their individuality and defying groupthink and social convention. That is true feminism!
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