Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, "gender gap" itself might be too narrowly defined. Women are apparently objecting to whole parts of Reagan's program, and not merely to specifically "feminist" areas. Should the Democrats necessarily see this in their favor? Or should both parties realize that women are now exerting an entirely new form of political strength, a form which might batter a male Democratic President just as harshly as a Republican, and which might move the entire political spectrum bodily leftward? If so, then a true feminist revolution may have started in 1980, when women voted significantly different from men for the first...
...movie filmed in Chicago and Springfield, Ill., Thomas plays a divorced woman who is harassed by the police in their search for her fugitive lover, played by Kris Kristofferson, 47. Says Thomas of her latest television persona: "She's past That Girl but is not quite a feminist. She's like a lot of divorced women-somewhere in the middle...
...Girls. In the first, five women till the harsh swampland of Norfolk; in the second, a Thatcheresque career woman chats with her peers from throughout history. In both, British Feminist Caryl Churchill displays acerbic ironies and dazzling technique...
Blame it on Flashdance. A seemingly impossible combination of a feminist Rocky, a bar girl Fame and Jane Fonda's Workout, Flashdance was planned before MTV even got on the air, and was in production when MTV first started to catch on. Critics, nevertheless, delighted in enumerating the movie's improbabilities and disparagingly pointed out its resemblance to a rock video. None of that seemed to trouble the paying public, which has forked over nearly $93 million to see Flashdance in the theater, an additional $47 million for the sound track and some $8 million for the privilege...
...Nellie Ely, perhaps the most celebrated turn-of-the-century journalist, got herself imprisoned in order to expose jail conditions for the New York World; Feminist Gloria Steinem became a Playboy Bunny to research a 1963 report for Show magazine...