Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parts factory in Rummidge -- "an imaginary city," the author informs us, "which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world." Vic's antagonist (and here the term is literal) is Robyn Penrose, an attractive, rigorously feminist lecturer in literature at the local university -- a specialist in the 19th century industrial novel, no less. To bolster her chance of a permanent appointment, Robyn goes along with a university scheme to shadow Vic's movements for one day a week in the interests of better academic-industrial understanding...
Perhaps Doi's most persistent problem is her unmarried state. Not only do rival politicians taunt her about her lack of a spouse, but the press continually asks her why. Doi, a confirmed feminist, says she simply has not found the right man. She has managed to convey a common touch through her love for pachinko, an extremely popular pinball-machine game, and her fondness for karaoke bars, where she sings along to Frank Sinatra...
Since those days in the '60s, the Woman's Movement has been suffering from an image problem. Along the way, "feminist" became a dirty word. The daughters of the Woman's Movement benefitted from their mothers' hard work, but failed to carry the torch any further. The Woman's Movement stopped moving...
...later book, The Second Stage, Friedan would call the syndrome suffered by this new generation of women the "I'm not a feminist but" disease. Women expected to be doctors, or CEOs, or astronauts, expected equal wages and compassionate employers, expected reproductive freedom as if that was the way it had always been. They believed that the setbacks they suffered as women were personal, not political...
...trouble within the Woman's Movement was that no issue galvanized feminist activity. The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified because so few women saw the gains as being immediate or verifiable. Other issues like pornography pitted female civil libertarians against their allies when many argued that the ills of censorship far outweighed any gains...