Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine in which this ad ran must be Cosmopolitan or Glamour or even Better Homes and Garden--one of the mass circulation women's magazines that has survived the women's movement and settled comfortably in this post-feminist age. The magazines which speak to notion that women work but secretly worry more about sex, having babies and getting married than about the presidential election and the trade deficit. The magazines that feature articles on "10 Ways to Get and Keep a Man" or "My Garden, My Hobby." One would assume that harmless articles like that would appear...
...Hanes targeted the new Ms. magazine to sell the Lindsay ad. That's right, the mouthpiece of the movement, Gloria Steinem's brainchild, now sells silky pantyhose and sexual stereotypes along with consciousness-raising and feminist politics...
...story of Ms.'s decline from feminist orthodoxy is an unhappy metaphor for the image of women in 1988--it is a story of business and money (or lack thereof), of waning interest in the women's movement and of new symbols that imprison women in much the same way that the "happy housewife" stereotype did in the 1950s...
...strayed from the path which its feminist founders envisioned for it. No longer is the magazine an irreverent, politicized bible for the women's movement. Instead, it has become a version of Cosmopolitan--with a pseudo-social conscience...
Today, the road begins for students with a12:15 p.m. convocation speech at Memorial Churchby Standahl Professor of Divinity ElisabethSchussler Fiorenza. Fiorenza, a visiting professorat the Divinity School last year, recently wontenure. She specializes in feminist biblicalinterpretation...