Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair, and in a debate before the election she was asked how gender influenced contention for the council's leadership. The woman, Deborah J. Slotnick '90, said that while she should be voted chair on the basis of her qualifications, she was proud to affirm that she was a feminist and would serve as a role model if elected as first woman council chair...
Advertisements, while perhaps an economic necessity, represented the first, gigantic slip from the prescribed feminist political agenda. Ms. may be owned by women, but companies like Hanes and Revlon control the magazine's future now. And since sex sells, it is unlikely that the businesses behind "Lindsay's legs" will change the content of their advertisements to reflect the editorial interests of the editors...
...sentiment, perhaps. But in the pages following this new statement of purpose, articles on gardening and fashion are interspersed with advertisements promoting mascara and exercise machines. So much for politics, which is relegated to a few articles buried in the magazine and to one-liners faintly hearkening back to feminist rhetoric of the past...
SEPTEMBER'S cover story, luridly billed on the front cover as "Bess Myerson: A Woman Undone By Love?," provides what may be the best insight into how the magazine now distorts the original lessons of its feminist foundation. After describing the turbulent events that led former Miss America Myerson to shoplifting, the article goes on to explain how Myerson's problems reflected larger problems with the women's movement...
Different sensibilities, certainly. But women do not rate gardening and miniskirts as pressing social or political issues today. And advertisements which degrade women, portraying them as sex objects and adhering to stereotypical sales pitches, do not belong in a magazine that purports to espouse feminist politics...