Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Let me get my coat off, dearest. I want to brace myself on the off chance that someone I love intends to launch a hearty feminist harangue. Am I about to hear that smiling is bad for women...
...crash, maybe 50 who are enraged by the mandatory 30-minute delay in getting off the ground, and another 100 or so who are busy getting giddy or truculent through the magic of booze. Under the circumstances, which is better: a calming smile or a conventional dose of feminist grimness? Wanda: Pilots don't have to chuckle when they give one of those reassuring Chuck Yeager speeches saying that there's nothing to worry about even though the plane has no landing wheels. Females are assigned the social role of grinning all the time, Ralph...
Some successful women leaders, Margaret Thatcher to name one, are gender neutral: they do not speak for the hopes and concerns of women any more than a male leader would. But Ferraro ran for Vice President as a feminist--and as a symbol of the transformation in the lives of American women over the past 20 years. She realized, as did most American women, that her campaign was a risk. Was the risk worth it? The answer lies not with the result but with the women, and men, who looked at Ferraro and sensed a limitless future for their daughters...
These well-intentioned attempts to legitimize the topic, however, have carried a price. The statistical evidence she uses to support popular feminist views of a women's vote may bring the study of women's political behavior into the circle of legitimate research topics, but it makes for convoluted writing at times...
Both the casual and committed reader would be well served to skim the first half of the book which traces changes in women's lives, emphasizing shifts in the economic and public spheres, and how they have led to a feminist consciousness...