Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sixty-four year old writer Grace Paley, self-proclaimed "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist," brought her audience of 150 to laughs and tears last night with lively readings of her feminist fiction...
...Feminist?" the 33-year-old Jacklin makes a face. "I'm a humanist. Feminists--it's like being in the army or something. I'm not quite there...
Fred and "Vinnie" are related by English department only; both teach at a university in upstate New York. Fred's feminist wife Ruth has decided to stay in America...
Antonia Fraser, 52, author of the newly published The Weaker Vessel, on her efforts to be an objective feminist historian: "Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God if she exists...
Curiously, the feminist movement, which has done much to break traditional gender roles, has been slow in turning its attention to the way boys are reared. "Feminists," notes Klein, "have been devoted to strengthening the lives of daughters, largely by adopting male traits. But we have neglected to prepare boys to be the mates of liberated daughters by fostering some feminine traits. Mothers agitate more to get their daughters admitted to a shop class or a ball team than they do to get sons into a sewing or dance group...