Later, with Robert Calef's observation of Mather's dealings with Margaret Rule, it became seen as the latter, with Mather perceived as drawing information from her through leading questions, and possibly having a prurient interest -- " Smutty " in Mather's words — in his intimate dealings with afflicted young women.

Through cross-examinations, the TAT exhibits a tendency toward chauvinistic stimuli for its questions and has the “ potential for unfavorable clinical evaluation ” for women.

He claims that several women, including Eleanor and her daughter Marie de Champagne, would sit and listen to the quarrels of lovers and act as a jury to the questions of the court that revolved around acts of romantic love.

Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women.

Hite's questions differed from Kinsey's, focusing more on how women identified, or what they preferred rather than experience.

Respondents to Hite's questions indicated that 8 % preferred sex with women and 9 % answered that they identified as bisexual or had sexual experiences with men and women, though they refused to indicate preference.

Aside from the questions of medical ethics this raises, it is a feminist issue on Barrayar, where the social roles of women have been entirely defined by their reproductive function.

Of some controversy are the questions of whether girls and women should or may learn the Talmud.

By adopting this Responsum, the CJLS found itself in a position to provide a considered Jewish-law justification for its egalitarian practices, without having to rely on potentially unconvincing arguments, undermine the religious importance of community and clergy, ask individual women intrusive questions, repudiate the halakhic tradition, or label women following traditional practices as sinners.

* Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

Reason aids Christine in laying the foundations for her city and answers Christine's questions about why men slander women.

Christine and Lady Rectitude also discuss the institution of marriage, addressing Christine ’ s questions regarding men ’ s claims about the ill qualities women bring to marriage.

Other questions that are explored are: the criminality of rape, the natural affinity in women to learn, and their talent for government.

In May of 2012, Live Action, a pro-life group, send actors posing as pregnant women into Planned Parenthood clinics, asking a series of questions to elicit information on sex-selective abortions.

In 1839 in Boston, Margaret Fuller began hosting conversations, akin to French salons, among women interested in discussing the " great questions " facing their sex.

Eleven months later, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner invited Obama to the annual House Issues Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, where the President answered questions and criticisms from Republican Congressmen and women.

Representatives of the family of contestants are posed questions that have already been answered by a survey of 100 people although, sometimes, the surveyed audience would be further narrowed down ( e. g. " 100 women ").

The suggestion that women can expel fluid from their genital area as part of sexual arousal has been described by women's health writer Rebecca Chalker as " one of the most hotly debated questions in modern sexology.

Fuller served as the " nucleus of conversation " and hoped to answer the " great questions " facing women: " What were we born to do?

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

The replies from each individual town are not given in detail because the questions asked the personal opinion of the several assessors and are not necessarily the established policy of the town in each case.

Specifically, it will be asked whether the `` real '' questions people ask are not the `` ultimate '' questions that social science finds itself impotent in the face of.

It is not that such questions are not asked.

But everyone I met had sought cover first and asked questions later.

He asked intimate questions and got frank answers from the members of what he calls the candidates' `` in-groups ''.

He had already become used to Hesperus' snapping back answers to questions almost before Jack could get them asked.

In the next stage, the scientists asked the participants some questions about type and frequency of their altruistic or helping behaviours.

Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked.

Some of the questions asked were:

A series of questions is then asked, to which the reply is always " I renounce them ":

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

According to the scriptures, during his lifetime the Buddha remained silent when asked several metaphysical questions.

To make a Turing machine that speaks Chinese, Searle gets in a room stocked with algorithms programmed to respond to Chinese questions, i. e., Turing machines, programmed to correctly answer in Chinese questions asked in Chinese, and he finds he's able to process the inputs to outputs perfectly without having any understanding of Chinese, nor having any idea what the questions and answers could possibly mean.

The questions, asked by the unseen Marker, range from their personal lives, as well as social and political issues of relevance at that time.

Attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.