Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Providing inexpensive, first-class day care, and linking practical wages and hours with parental leave are important first steps in establishing the just society, a noted feminist scholar in political thought told an audience of 50 people at Boylston Hall last night...
...first great career women in American history, Luce found herself alternately patronized by those who saw her only as a woman and anathematized by those who saw only her career. For some, she was too elegant to be intelligent, for others too sharp-witted to be ladylike. An early feminist whose most famous play showed women at their cattiest, a formidable grande dame of high society who was one of its most caustic satirists, Luce made a career of eluding categories...
...away from home to work in a factory making paper favors. When her mother remarried, she began to enjoy her first taste of society and was soon zestfully embracing all the paradoxes of getting ahead as a woman: at 18 she was working for the feminist cause, including distributing pamphlets urging women to "make themselves heard," while just two years later she was accepting a convenient marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw, an unstable millionaire 23 years her senior who was, by her own characteristic admission, a " bore...
...German feminist director Margarethe von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg is a richly told tale of this unsung hero. Von Trotta, who has acted in such films as The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum and directed several critically acclaimed works, including Sisters and Sheer Madness, lives up to her reputation as a dominant personality in German cinema. Rosa Luxemburg brings to life the harsh personal and political life of Luxemburg...
...Trotta moderates her actors' performances and saves the film from the excesses that made the characters of Gandhi too inspiring to be real. Von Trotta's focus on the female friends of Luxemburg, for example, tends to humanize the historical figure. And the feminist director prevents the men who love Rosa from idolizing...