Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first recorded two decades ago for Columbia, features some pretty tasty stuff. The singing on this number is so emotional one wonders how Franklin could even finish the song. The same goes for "Integrity," which Franklin wrote and produced, and which has the immediacy and purposefulness of a real feminist anthem--"You think ladies are toys/I like the big boys/...With integrity...
Then the snags reemerge. The album's other attempt to corner the feminist market fares poorly. "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves," sung with Annie Lennox, beats its anthemic theme over the head--"Now this is a song to celebrate/The conscious liberation of the female state...." Although Eurythmics' Dave Stewart gets in a few impressive licks, the tune buckles under the weight of its own significance...
Delivering the keynote address at a local two-day conference last weekend, the feminist lawyer made some hard to dispute arguments about pornography, saying that "it institutionalizes a subhuman, second class, victimized status for women...
...Pornography in the feminist view is not a question of good or bad, false or true, edifying or pleasant, but rather of power and powerlessness," MacKinnon told an estimated crowd of 300 at MIT. "It's a question of sexual politics...
...Noted feminist and author Kate Millet accurately described the moral quandry many of us face over the banning of sexually explicit materials we find offensive...