Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacKinnon, a University of Minnesota law professor and a recent speaker at the Law School, co-sponsored a Minneapolis municipal ordinance with feminist writer Andrea Dworkin that defines pornography as a violation of a woman's civil rights. This bill, which was vetoed by the Mayor, would have allowed anyone to sue the creators and distributors of pornography for damages, effectively putting them out of business...
...perhaps, of her lives. MacLaine is not only actress, dancer, author, traveler, political activist, feminist, ex-wife and deliberately unmotherly mother. She is also, she says, "a former prostitute, my own daughter's daughter, and a male court jester who was beheaded by Louis XV of France"-all in past incarnations that she believes she has rediscovered with the aid of mediums, meditation and, in at least one case, acupuncture. Friends and former lovers have tried to persuade her to keep quiet about these prior existences, and about her faith in extraterrestrial intelligence, "out-of-body experiences" and telepathy...
...time," he says, "and she was also quite an athlete." Yet they have sharply differing recollections. Shirley depicts her father and mother as conservative and conventional. Warren contends that his parents were implicitly liberal on many matters, and that they raised him and Shirley with "a good, healthy, early feminist point of view." Warren says it was apparent when Shirley was 16 or 17 that she would succeed in show business, and her swift rise was an influence in his choosing a performing career. When his parents took Warren, then 17, to see Shirley in Pajama Game, he recalls...
Aging females would not have to dread the type of social isolation expressed by a middle-aged woman in a 1970s feminist anthology, who wrote that although men of varying ages privately found her attractive, they never asked her out on formal dates because, by her guess, she could not provide them with the social prestige offered by a 20-year...
This is because the current media preoccupation with older female sexuality is unfortunately geared towards an only partially enlightened audience. American men have caught on to almost every aspect of the feminist dialectic, except for the one closest to home, namely sex. By now many of them would probably welcome equality in the workplace and even the drawing room. But I suspect most would still find it difficult to accept a strikingly sexy female (young or old) as an autonomous and entirely respectworthy being...