Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home are cause for empty-nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati and is writing a "highly ambitious feminist novel called Ever Since Eve." One son makes mobiles, "unrequested by the world," while his brother tries to crack the Manhattan film world of "lost young souls stoned on media, pounding the sidewalks and virtually (who knows? -- maybe actually) selling their bodies for the whisper of a promise of becoming...
Drawing on feminist insights, the best of the new clinics seek to provide total basic care. They are a kind of one-stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff...
...boom is fueled by financial practicalities as well as feminist principles. According to the American Hospital Association, women visit doctors 25% more often than men do and account for 63% of all surgery. Eleven of the 20 most frequent surgical procedures (notably tubal ligations and breast biopsies) are performed only on women. Moreover, women generally choose the family doctor and health-insurance package. Such medical realities have led to fierce and unapologetic wooing. Women's HealthCare and Wellness Center in Oak Park, Ill., signed up Dorothy Hamill, Ann Jillian and Rita Moreno to promote its opening last November. Intermountain Health...
...lines they find offensive from any context in the song or Lennox's body of work as a whole, offering a distorted account of what this song means. Not surprisingly, after caricaturing the view, Greaves and Rader reject it as politically unpalatable, not stopping to consider whether any feminist perspective other than their own might have some value...
...light of this, Greaves and Rader's implicit condemnation of Annie Lennox is particularly wrong-headed. Lennox may sing love songs that express emotions Greaves and Rader find unacceptable, but she also co-wrote and recorded, with Aretha Franklin, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", arguably the most straightforwardly feminist manistream pop song ever. In public appearances Lennox constantly challenges accepted gender norms. The point should be obvious: Lennox is succeeding in the male-dominated world of popular music without becoming a sex kitten, without exploiting her stunning good looks, without mouthing submissive lines put in her mouth by others...