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End side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t005\tThe interviewer points out that in the graduate programs – women seem genuinely more interested in the literature; where men seem more interested in a career\n\t\t100\tThe interviewer goes on to point out that marriages between faculty members and outsiders (those who have no graduate training in English) often fail; while the tendency for a woman to leave school upon marriage – continues\n\t\t124\tThe interviewer asks whether these conditions still prevail\n\t\t158\tEli maintains that men in positions of power continue to marginalize women\n\t\t180\tEli states that a feminist movement is being propelled by a language which accommodates female expression – this language can be found in poetic movements\n\t\t250\tAnn responds that women are constantly placed in a subordinate position by institutional mechanism such as marriage and university\n\t\t290\tAnn points out that women, in university are still associated with creative writing\n\t\t328\tEli argues that women are allocated a kind of mystical rule in our culture through writing\n\t\t350\tAnn explains that women are in a double bind – they are frustrated, and forbidden to be militant\n\t\t383\tBoth speakers discuss the discriminatory practices of English faculty departments\n\t\t430\tEnd. 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