Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action is a victory for feminist health leaders, who initiated the decade-long campaign to approve the cap. Cervical covers date back more than 2,500 years, and have been made from materials as varied as opium, gold and ivory. Dr. Friedrich Wilde, a German gynecologist, developed the modern rubber version in 1838, and it quickly gained widespread popularity in Europe. In the U.S., however, it never caught on, mainly because Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in family planning in the 1900s, favored the diaphragm...
After a decade- long feminist- led campaign, the Government finally approves an ancient birth- control device: the cervical...
...perplexed by the problems of its underclass, Lessing offers a message that is both progressive and reactionary. Dorothy emerges as the hero, but she is a throwback to a time when women and the lower classes were, if anything, worse off. Lessing's depiction of the post-feminist world of the 1970s offers the vision of a grand-mother, rather than that of a young crusader. Lessing's nostalgic proposal looks backwards and is, ultimately, no proposal...
...version of Fairfax's fabulously successful Australian teen magazine Dolly. Last September, upon hearing that Ms. Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine were looking for a new source of funding, Yates persuaded her Australian bosses to buy the magazine for a reported $10 million. She then installed Summers, a feminist historian and former chief of Fairfax's New York bureau, as editor...
Freed from editorial restrictions placed on it when it was published by a tax-exempt foundation, Ms. now features political coverage and a revamped news section. Current articles stress solid reporting and are deliberately less doctrinaire. "Ms. approaches the world with 'feminist' assumptions, but it doesn't mean we use the word in every sentence," says Summers. Despite these changes, the new Ms. is still in transition. "We are neither a workingwoman's magazine nor a traditional woman's magazine, nor a fashion magazine," declares Summers, unwittingly leaving the impression that she is far more certain about what...