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Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights

By Jeralyn, Section Harriet Miers
Posted on Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 10:37:57 AM EST
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Via a Daily Kos Diary and the Chronicle of Higher Education (source corrected):

For someone both heralded and feared as a potentially conservative voice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet E. Miers has played a key role in exposing college students to some unmistakably liberal ideas.

In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community. A strong advocate for women, Ms. Raggio helped persuade state lawmakers to revise Texas laws to give women new rights over property and in the event of divorce.

...A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, delivered the series's first lecture, in 1998. In the following two years, the speakers were Patricia S. Schroeder, the former Democratic congresswoman widely associated with women's causes, and Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991). Ann W. Richards, the Democrat whom George W. Bush unseated as governor of Texas in 1994, delivered the lecture in 2003.

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    Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#1)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    Good for her, tho I wonder what the difference is between the Women's Studies program at Southern Methodist University and, say, Vassar. Or Berkely. Or, hell, even UCSD in rich and conservative La Jolla.

    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    I know that when I hear "women's studies" I immediately think "liberal" in the classic sense. I do not think "far-left if not Gramscian." No, not at all!

    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#3)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    why does BMB hate women who can think?

    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#4)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    BMB, Wow! That was the silliest thing that I have read in a long time. I love the conclusion, that the only purpose of an education is employment. How sad for you.

    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#5)
    by ras on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    TL, your "Hooray for Harriet" greatest hits album will be a best-seller at this rate. Who'd'a thunk you'd fall so hard for an Evangelical, personal lawyer to Bush, criminalize-gay-sex, pro-abortion nominee? Welcome to the dark side, my love. We've been waiting.

    Re: Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:44 PM EST
    No wonder the conservatives radical right wing hates Miers. She's got a brain and not afraid to use it AND she is not lockstep in some radical right party line. Makes me want her to be approved for the SC.

    Harriet Miers: Support for Women's Rights | 6 comments (6 topical)