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Part II of a three-part series on women retiring: How do feminists face the future in retirement?
In Part I of this series last month, three feminists now retired from academia pondered whether feminists face the future in retirement differently than women (feminist or not) have in the past and whether it's still true that 'women's work is never done,' for those seeking social change. Here are the words of two other women at the annual Wisconsin Women's Studies conference in April 2007.
Dr. Star Olderman, a professor of English at UW-Whitewater in the 1970s where she was one of the founders of Women's Studies, left academia for 13 years during the 1980s for a career in marketing and freelance writing. Then she returned to Whitewater in the 1990s to chair the ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London TERESA POOLE Peking August 17, 1995 700+ words
...to keep feminists at the International Women's Non-Governmental Forum, which starts...host to the Fourth World Conference on Women as well as the parallel NGO Forum. In...spent preparing the site. To cater for women from the Third World, a large proportion...
- Look Me In The Eye: Old Women Aging and Ageism.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: off our backs Douglas, Carol Anne September 1, 2005 700+ words
...told her that "old women existed and it was...be glad to be an old woman." Glad to be an old woman! How reading those...perspective. Hatred of old women benefits the men in...She demanded that feminists face up to ageism, and...
- The goddess that failed. (marxism and feminism) (Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: National Review Minogue, Kenneth November 18, 1991 700+ words
...understood and destroyed. Feminists face, however, a serious problem...torn between the thesis that women are indistinguishable from...very different thesis that women represent a sane and healthy...doctrine whose point is to exclude women. What became unmistakable...
- Men's Work, Masculinities and Gender Divisions of Labour.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Development Studies JACKSON, CECILE October 1, 1999 700+ words
...insight that '[t]he problem of women was never just about women' [Strathern, 1988: 33...dilemmas of studying men which many feminists face, and which have been fuelled...understand the subordination of women. Turning gender analysis towards...
- Letters.
- Magazine article from: off our backs August 1, 2000 700+ words
...Liberation Movement. (When young women look blank at that I am confirmed once against that the Women's Studies programs have whited...Ageism is extremely damaging to women of all ages. As second wave feminists face middle age, even with their...
- Islamic Feminism
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Cooke, Miriam January 1, 2005 700+ words
...and demands. Many of these women are particularly critical of...language and behavior of Muslim women. What is the problem with...Jewish, Christian, or Buddhist feminists face the same conundrum? Probably...concerned about the welfare of women in the societies they had invaded...
- Florida Hospital East Orlando.(to switch some obstetrics beds to...
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend May 1, 2001 700+ words
...regulatory permission to switch its 16 obstetrics beds to surgical-medical beds. The change would force most pregnant women to go to the already overcrowded Winter Park Memorial Hospital to deliver or to pick hospitals in another chain.
- Flexible Scheduling.(Flextime for workers)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Friedman, Robyn A. May 1, 2001 700+ words
...schedules," says Julie Silver, Boardroom's president. Although the great majority of those seeking flexible arrangements are women with children, plenty of men are on flexible or alternative work schedules as well, says Bob Losyk, a Davie-based human...