"Someone"? It wasn't just a "someone" though was it Miss Mod.
Here's a little background from your favorite liberal feminist author.
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Frances S. Hasso
Assistant Professor (2000)
Rice Hall 115
(440) 775-6783
email:
frances.hasso@oberlin.edu
B.A., University of California, L.A., 1987
M.A., Georgetown University, 1990
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997
Frances Hasso is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology. Her research and teaching interests are eclectic, interdisciplinary, comparative, and transregional, addressing issues of gender, race/nation, post-coloniality, identity, inequality, social movements, and epistemology. A significant proportion of her empirical research has focused on gender and nationalism in the Middle East. She has taught a range of courses, including social theory, race & ethnicity, gender roles & status, social inequality, research methods, urban studies, introduction to women's studies, and introduction to sociology. At Oberlin, she will be teaching introduction to women's studies, feminist theory, feminist research methodologies, global feminisms, women and social movements, and gender and the state in the Middle East. In 1995, Frances received a Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship. She also received the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies in 1996. Her publications include: "'The Women's Front:' Nationalism, Feminism and Modernity in Palestine" (Gender & Society, 1998); "Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women," co-authored with Laura M. Lopez, in Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, edited by Jodi O'Brien and Judith Howard (Blackwell, 1998). "Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats," was published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 32 (November 2000): 491-510. Another article, "Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives," was recently published in the November 2001 issue of the American Journal of Sociology (vol. 107 no. 3).
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Don't pretend to be objective.
I thought that MSNBC and Fox had the best coverage.