Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argues--in an academic thesis-evidence-thesis-impact style which occasionally tries the reader's patience--that women's changing roles have led to a transformation of their consciousness. This change in turn has provoked a recognition that they, as a group, are the victims of discrimination. Present day feminist politics has its origins in this discontent...
...Women's Movement to become an effective protest movement--one which would lead to legislative changes--its leaders had to attract wide-ranging public support from men as well as women. With due praise for the role of male feminists in the struggle for equal rights. Klein distinguishes between men's and women's commitment to feminist ideals. Although men may say they support big-F Feminism, they do so more out of a belief in traditional liberal doctrine than a recognition that discrimination has held women back...
KLEIN has made an obvious effort to legitimize the feminist politics genre in the minds of mainstream political scientists. To a literature which has consisted mostly of fiction and pop social science works on women's political behavior--ranging from Bella Abzug's faulty prediction of how women would bring Reagan defeat in November to Gloria Steinem's telling collection of essays describing her personal encounters with sexism, discrimination and feminism--the former Harvard professor adds a quantitative and historically supported thesis about the genesis of feminist politics. She has produced perhaps the first unabashedly academic treatise on the often...
...again true to form-this time in the boardroom. "I play a lady executive sleeping her way to the top," Seymour reports. "In many ways she is the most honest of the characters." Still, the star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then decided that the script was "extremely funny and made sense." Another departure for Seymour are three scenes in scanty black underwear. Running around close to au naturel, she says, "is rare...
...solution to social inequities, as Allred saw it, was in the law. She graduated from Los Angeles' Loyola Law School in 1974 and set up a practice with three classmates, specializing in family law. Allred, Maroko, Goldberg & Ribakoff now numbers five women and six men - "all feminists," boasts Allred. The firm's star operates from a plush office jammed with antiques and feminist bric-a-brac. Among the items: a captain's desk with female gargoyles and a bewigged mannequin bearing a plaque THE QUEEN IS NOT GRANTING AUDIENCES TODAY. The sign is a gift from...