Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California feminist fights with showmanship and scholarship...
...brightly colored as her name suggests. But there is a lot more to this Los Angeles attorney than vivid packaging. By adroitly combining showy tactics and solid scholarship, Allred over the past ten years has become one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes. Declares Allred: "The law should be a sword and shield against the wrongs that women are forced to suffer...
Appalled by the plight of female teachers and becoming aware of the growing feminist movement, "I started asking myself about women's rights," recalls Allred, "and I started asking what rights we didn't have." She had several personal experiences to draw on. While at N.Y.U. she had worked as a buyer at Gimbels department store. She earned $75 a week, while a man doing the same job got $90 "because he had a family. Well, so did I - an infant daughter...
...Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures for the next generation. Supergirl: the girl next door as feminist champion. The Terminator: a killing machine from the year 2029 and rotten to the cybernetic core...
...PRODUCTION of theatrical lese majeste par excellence, this Taming of the Shrew is rich in intelligence and little strokes of genius, and wildly short of a unifying vision. The key dichotomy is between the feminist intent and the burlesque setting. Burlesque and Shakespearean comedy are close in many ways, and sometimes the technical devices have been successfully transplanted. But the spirit of burlesque is completely antithetical to McDonough's tragicomic conception of the Shakespeare work...