Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suleiman said she plans to spend next year on leave from Harvard with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, during which she will study French surrealism, especially as related to French feminist theory...
...MAIN STRENGTH of Pesetsky's novel lies in the character of the narrator-protagonist herself. Never whining, rarely dogmatic, she makes everything in her quirky tale seem perfectly probable, so internalized is the logic. At times, however, the feminist themes do turn reductonist. During one of Harry's visits home, the teenage daughter is wondering whether to take carpentry or ballet as a school elective. Her mother is all for woodwork as opposed to Harry, who advocates that "any girl with swell legs should take ballet." One is left with the lingering suspicion that May could only have married Harry...
WHEN HUGH HEFNER founded Playboy magazine in 1953, he did little to help foster the sexual revolution; instead, his radical publication helped stimulate the rise of consumerism while maintaining what was ultimately a "clean" sexual ethic. This is one of the more provocative arguments feminist author Barbara Ehrenreich puts forth in The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment, which offers a fresh approach to the battle of the sexes. Written with wit, style, and no small degree of social insight, this important book significantly challenges popular beliefs about the women's movement and the current anti...
Ehrenrich's strategy as a feminist is not to use rhetoric but instead to expose humorous non sequiturs and inconsistencies of the other side: it is the politics of discredit. Shortly after the above passage comes this...
...this point, the erotic fairytale both becomes more interesting since the feminist issue is at the forefront and more confusing and disappointing because that subject excessively dominates the remaining act without leaving us with any new ideas or approaches...