Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause. Since her contribution to Ms. magazine's first issue in 1970, the free-lance journalist has broadcasted the validity of the women's movement in Time, Atlantic Monthly and New York magazines. Her first book, The Girl I Left Behind: The Housewife's Moment of Truth and Other Feminist Ravings, is a collection of some of O'Reilly's wittiest and most perceptive essays and articles about being feminist in a man's world, about her evolution from a '50s "girl" who said she was going to Radcliffe to become a better wife and mother to a '70s successful...
...Reilly says nothing Susan Brounmiller did not already say about rape, provides no new insights into the "Feminine Mystique" that Betty Friedan wrote about, and offers no new statistics on the evils of Nestle's Baby Formula, she eloquently describes the contradictions and confusions that beset a "liberated" feminist weaned on post-war values. Among O'Reilly's more bewildering regressions are the compulsion to make her house "look as though no one lived there"; preparing coffee for men who are willing to make their won; masochistically choosing lovers who humiliate her; and believing that "if I pick...
...honestly ambivalent about the trade-offs her emotional and economic independence presents: the guilt of making her work a priority over her children; the difficulties of finding men who respect her feminism; the loneliness of being single; and the pressure to be a superwoman--good mother, worker, lover, and feminist...
That is how Calvin Klein jeans are being hawked in a TV commercial called The Feminist. It is one of a series of six Klein ads that, besides selling a lot of $50 pants, are bringing a message to the media: vulgarity in advertising is on the rise, and bottoms are big business. Responding to an avalanche of viewer complaints, NBC in New York City last week banned The Feminist, which is the most suggestive in the series. Earlier CBS and ABC affiliates in Los Angeles and New England rejected some of the other commercials as well. The stations have...
...tongue and mocking sense of social comedy. An unfavorite cousin's face reminds her of a "mandrill's behind." T.S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday she greets as "Tom's hard-boiled egg." She describes avoiding an encounter with Ethel Smyth, the doughty, pipe-smoking feminist and composer who became infatuated with her: "I could not face her, though she was passing our door. Her letters sound as if she was in a furious droning mood, like a gale, all on one note...