Featured White Papers
- Oct. 14th: Simplified IT with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (ZDNet)
- PCI DSS therapy for the smaller retailer (McAfee)
- Recognizing the benefits of telework (Citrix Online)
Content provided in partnership with
The cutting edge
National Review, August 3, 1992 by Erich Eichman
All of this was received with the kind of wild applause and appreciative laughter that one might expect, even if there was--just possibly--something offensively facile about Miss Steinem's eagerness to draw parallels, or "make connections," as she would say. I could not help thinking that fetus-assaulting, that is to say abortion itself and not the curtailing of it, was the closest parallel in the West to the unconsented-to physical assault that "female genital mutilation" was said to be. In any case, the audience members who asked questions of Miss Steinem and the other panelists never challenged the militant feminist assumptions by which the entire subject had been carefully, to use an even milder word, circumscribed.
Miss Walker returned at the end to express solidarity with an African woman who had recently been denied asylum in France. Faye Wattleton, late-arrived from her international flight, thanked Miss Walker yet again for "challenging us" with her novel and motioned to the crowd for another standing ovation, which was promptly delivered. As people rose from their seats to leave, Terrie Williams shouted into the microphone that the best way of carrying the evening's message "into the universe" was to buy the book on the way out.
COPYRIGHT 1992 National Review, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
Find Research Guides for:
Find Featured Titles for: Business
- Academy of Marketing Science Review
- Accounting Historians Journal, The
- Accounting History
- AgExporter
- Agricultural Research
- Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
- Air Force Comptroller
- Air Safety Week
- Airline Industry Information
- American Demographics
- American Journal of Potato Research
- Architectural Review, The
- Asian Economic News
- Entrepreneur