Ground rules
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American political feminist Andrea Dworkin believes pornography plays a key role in reinforcing men's dominant attitude towards sex and women and she feels all pornography is violence. She also controversially believes that pornographic violence is prevalent in almost all heterosexual relationships, including marriage. Critics such as author Naomi Wolf assert that Dworkin does not relate to the experiences of most women. Dworkin is criticised for being a 'victim-feminist' who does not want to perceive women as powerless but who is simultaneously contemptuous of powerful women.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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The colour blind spot
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Racism in British universities can be tackled in several ways, such as by researching the level of institutional racism and by looking at how lecturers and students from ethnic minorities have found university life. The interviewing system must be changed to abolish racial stereotyping by interviewers. All staff involved in recruitment to universities must be retrained. Some universities have been found to show a high level of racism in their admission systems. Most universities fail to recognize they endorse racism. Yet out of 8,478 professors only 120 are black.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Deconstructing Gayatri
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Postcolonial critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argues that professor of English literature at Oxford University Terry Eagleton was quoting her out of context when he criticised the language of her new book 'A Critique of Postcolonial Reason' as pretentious and opaque. Spivak, an academic at Columbia University, New York, rejects Eagleton's charge that she is abandoning activist politics. Spivak is however reluctant to talk about the way in which she spends each summer helping to train people in the most inaccessible parts of India to teach reading and writing.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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