Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hooper is sure that Women's Studies is not just a political faction, however. To prove it, she concedes that "feminist theory is too limited to support" Women's Studies. Instead, we need to have Women's Studies "incorporated into a variety of concentrations...
...Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged to use the film as a study aid for their students. Waiting for the Moon, a new film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas starring Linda Hunt, will be screened for feminist groups and advertised in gay newspapers...
Royalle's four films are considered the best examples of porn in the feminist style. The sex scenes flow from female passion and needs, not male lechery, and women tend to initiate the sex. In Daughters, the male leads are unremittingly sensitive and determined not to dominate. When one of the three daughters gets a job in London, her boyfriend cheerfully changes jobs to follow her abroad. The youngest sister, after an endless series of chaste dates with a refined boyfriend, consummates the affair as the film ends. Says Royalle: "Women like the buildup, the tension -- Will...
Royalle risked feminist wrath, however, by including a mild and playful bondage episode. She acknowledges that bondage and submission scenes, though high on the lists of female fantasies in sex polls, are "politically incorrect" with the women's movement. "Women do have these fantasies," she says, "but people are still so ignorant that they take them literally and think women want to be mistreated...
Revolution Books, which specializes in feminist, Marxist and Third World literature, will be moving from its Arrow Street location because its landlord has decided not to renew the store's lease, according to a worker at the Cambridge bookstore...