Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried not to get so anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...they have a relationship reminiscent of high school sweethearts. The couple have no children, but Bob Dole, 59, has a 27-year-old daughter from his first marriage. Dole says he has had no problems adjusting to the high-powered career of his wife, whom he calls a "sensible" feminist. When he ran unsuccessfully for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1979, Elizabeth resigned her job on the Federal Trade Commission to campaign for him. He dubbed his North Carolina-born wife "my Southern strategy." Quipped he last week: "When she got ahead of me in the polls, I dropped...
...Skirmishes opened off-Broadway and Quartermaine's Terms at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Interestingly enough, counting Nell Dunn's Steaming, already running at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater, three out of four new British entries are by women, possibly because Britain's feminist consciousness is just now peaking. Top Girls displays some postfeminist tristesse; only Steaming seems earnest in its feminist polemics, ironically garnished with pre-fig leaf nudity...
...1970s, Joyce Carol Gates was hardly alone in wishing for more than a feminist monotone from a number of American women writers. "I anticipate, in my idealism," she wrote in a 1980 contemplation of the future, "novels by women that are not women's novels...
SUCH HISTORICAL BACKGROUND combines easily with the biography because Mailer's own writing was always reflecting the character of the country. Working for numerous magazines, he covered John F. Kennedy '40 and the space program, the 1968 and 1972 Presidential conventions. His response to his feminist detractors, The Prisoner of Sex, originally appeared in Harper's magazine. As Mills says of his Armies of the Night, Mailer's report of the march on the Pentagon...