Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reigniting the feminist movement as it used to be is no more possible than a return to the simpler times before feminism. By the early 1980s, more imaginative women in the movement began to speak of a second phase that would be quite different from the first. Friedan, as usual, was out front. In her 1981 book The Second Stage, she called on her feminist sisters to go beyond "sexual politics" that cast man as the enemy and denied women's "roots and life connection in the family." The movement must change its focus, she argued, from succeeding...
...Many feminists believe men will resist these changes. "It means more competition at work and more housework at home," says Patricia Ireland of NOW. Others argue that men will see benefits for themselves. "It's women's demands that are making the workplace more livable," says Warren Farrell, a self-proclaimed "male feminist" and author of Why Men Are the Way They Are. "Companies did not have to be flexible in the past because men were their slaves...
Before senior editor Claudia Wallis sat down to write this week's cover story, she had mixed emotions about the feminist movement. "If asked the question, 'Are you a feminist?' I would have said, 'Yes, but . . . ' " The uncertainty reflected Wallis' experience balancing the demands of a career and a growing family (she and her husband Hugh Osborn, a media consultant, have two children, Nathaniel, 3, and Madeleine, 11 months). "I wondered whether the movement did us a disservice by not preparing us for how difficult it would be," she says. "I'm part of a generation of women who grew...
...cover story cleared up much of Wallis' uncertainty about feminism. Examining outdated images of women in old ads and studying reports from correspondents Scott Brown, Melissa Ludtke and Martha Smilgis proved how far women have come. Now, she says, "I have no problem saying, 'Yes, I am a feminist...
Marisol, the renowned wood sculptor, fashioned the figures on the cover from pinewood and plywood and hand-painted the suit. Marisol also did TIME's Hugh Hefner cover in 1967 and the Nixon-Kissinger Men of the Year cover for 1972. Although she supports feminist causes, Marisol prefers another label. "I'm not a feminist," says she. "I'm an artist...