Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Mayor Janet Gray Hayes: "This is the civil rights issue of the '80s." That it is being argued in San Jose is ironic: Hayes heads a mostly female city council and has for years touted her city as "the feminist capital of the world...
Pickets, undaunted by blistering heat, shuffle outside city hall with pithy placards. One reads: IF I HEAR THE MAYOR SAY THIS IS THE FEMINIST CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AGAIN, I'LL PUKE. Their vigil is evidence that equal pay for comparable work is an issue whose time is about to come. Already a ripple effect is being felt 40 miles north. A San Francisco official last week called for a study to see if that city is paying its employees equitably...
Phelps, a writer in Rockville Centre, N.Y., spent three years sifting through thousands of fairy and folk tales looking for brave and clever heroines. She found enough for two books: Tatterhood and Other Tales (The Feminist Press; 1978) and her just published The Maid of the North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck...
Phelps' updated dialogue offers a feminist case against marriage: "A wife is like a house dog tied with a rope. Why should I be a servant and wait upon a husband...
...months to produce a list naming the sponsors most responsible for supporting sex, profanity and violence on TV, the Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television abruptly announced that its proposed consumer boycott of the offending advertisers was off-for the moment. Appearing at a Washington press conference with Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly and Moral Majority guru, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, CBTV head, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, explained that productive discussions with executives of the companies in question had made a boycott unnecessary. That explanation echoed the sentiment of Moral Majority Spokesman Cal Thomas: "The networks and advertisers seem to have...