Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mills's technique works particularly well in the chapter on Mailer's much-publicized arguments with feminist leaders. Attacked for caustic comments up to and including "Women should be kept in cages" (on an Orson Welles talk show), Mailer maintains that it's harder for women to be feminine after the technological advances. Mills quotes him pleading with women not to "quit the womb." Abbie Hoffman says Mailer "sees feminism as the decline of civilization" but describes how Mailer's own social habits counter his chauvinistic image. But Mills also quotes Germaine Greer, who said Mailer "pushed himself into...
Tootsie is the story of how a failed off-Broadway actor named Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) achieves wisdom as well as professional success when he dresses up as a woman called Dorothy Michaels, becomes a star on a television soap opera and a kind of feminist media heroine as well. The movie was one of the messiest productions in recent history, for a time informally retitled "The Troubled Tootsie" in the gossip columns. No fewer than eight writers, three directors and a spare producer or two worked on it. There were hair-raising stories of Hoffman and Director Sydney Pollack...
Although the calendar--which recently went on sale in Boston. New York City and throughout Connecticut--was intended to make people laugh, Rothman and Becker have received angry complaints from several feminist groups at Yale...
...Board rulings, feminist protests and House Masters' dicta--the Harvard intramural athletics program has survived all three while flourishing into one of the student body's largest extracurricular activities. This year two out of every three undergraduates will participate in at least one intramural sport...
...worked out of the Clearinghouse, as will this year's Pro-Choice Action Committee. The center is open every day and attracts dozens of women because of its library, information it provides on issues of concern to women and its free coffee. Some of these women make their first feminist contacts at the center: it creates networks among women the new Rape/Sexual Harassment Hotline grew out of early discussions at the center, as did the women's Self-defense course at Currier House. The center expects to involve hundreds more in this year's Women's Health Week. The numbers...