Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feminist theme continues throughout McCaffrey's work, even in her tales of dragons and the fantastical planet Pern...
Megan L. Peimer '97, co-president emeritus of RUS, said, "The feminist community is divided over whether pornography should be legal...
...rock bands, fanzines and discussion groups that focused on issues relating to women (sexual abuse, lesbianism, female friendship and so on). The group's first two CDs, Sleater-Kinney (1995) and Call the Doctor (1996), received raves in the rock press as part of the general media hype about feminist rockers, but those albums were slight, tinny affairs that got by mostly on motion and emotion. They featured a few worthy songs, but the band was still discovering its power, looking for rock-'n'-roll release. "Boyfriend, a car, a job my white girl life..." went the lyrics...
...band's laudably gritty feminist outlook isn't more creatively realized, however. Many of the songs on Dig Me Out feature lyrics that are either too abstract to have much impact or too obvious to have much poetic resonance. The dull Heart Factory, for example, is about--duh--a factory that makes hearts: "Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." It doesn't take Deep Blue to figure out that that metaphorical construct is a yawner...
...exactly what I was getting at. It's really helpful if you break it down into the Irish, or in some cases generational analysis and talking about the medium. It seems similar again to your work on Cindy Sherman, where we could say that Laura Mulvey throws on a feminist reading and you ask more specifically how that functions within Sherman's work, how her photographs signify or come to a feminist stance...