Word: adress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ruby in Paradise" is clearly a very contemporary attempt to adress the "big questions," like "Gas, Food, Lodging" before it. In that film, the protagonist finds fulfillment in embracing traditional femininity. Both of these films are reactive responses to the issues brought up by the radical feminism of the 70's. While both stories try to escape the idea of "woman as the oppressed," "Ruby in Paradise" comes closer to achieving this while preserving the positive feminist goal of mental and spiritual independence...