Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who oppose legalized abortion are willing to sacrifice women's rights, a prominent feminist scholar told more than 40 students last night...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Joan Allen's poignant playing turns writer Wendy Wasserstein's feminist cliches into a touching glimpse of baby boomers grown older if not wiser...
...entirely a natural migration. Even Wasserstein wonders if a play that includes a scene built around a 1970 feminist consciousness-rais ing group ("Either you shave your legs or you don't" is the refrain) and is filled with arcane political references can ever be commercially successful. "I'm not stupid," Wasserstein laughs. "I don't know if theater parties will say, 'Let's go to this. It's got a great Herbert Marcuse joke...
...playwright does not deny that bad reviews wound. But these days, there is also a keen pride as Wasserstein views her handiwork on Broadway. "I'm normally a self-deprecating person," she says, putting it mildly. "But when I saw those women on stage in the feminist rap group, I said, 'Good for them, and good for us.' This is a play of ideas. Whether you agree or not doesn't matter...
...Heidi Chronicles tells of a heroine who grew up a feminist, as did the writer, in a tale that tempers anger with humor and a sense of loneliness...