Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carpenter said she learned that the feminist movement needs both "shouters" and those willing to work with the establishment to advance their cause...
...covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage to lose track of their little girl for a 14-year span -- and still retain the reader's sympathy. Perhaps because the author is a longtime feminist, Helen, who finally conquers her passive instincts and makes an independent life for herself, comes off rather better than her domineering, pigheaded husband...
...consistency to the winds in favor of little epigrams and bitchy asides ("She looked like a Christmas cracker with no present inside"). Weldon even produced this flighty nonsense the old-fashioned way: in weekly installments for the British magazine Woman. The Hearts and Lives of Men will make superior feminist beach reading...
Among some Jackson advisers, the savvy Lewis, 50, is known as the "mother of us all." A former political director of the Democratic National Committee, a thoughtful, deep-dyed liberal and feminist, Lewis rarely accompanies Jackson but acts as a kind of backboard off which he bounces ideas. She functions as a conduit to party Pooh-Bahs and the media...
...course! Mrs. Stern must have missed the feminist movement. The lawyers trying this case imposed their standards of motherhood on the witness by the questions they asked, but she acquiesced to their determinations by the answers she gave. Something has gone horribly wrong. Women never said they didn't want only to be mothers during the feminist revolution, they just said they didn't want only to be mothers. But now, as the case of Baby M has shown, women are being asked to make the choice. It's bad enough to disapprove of a woman for working...