Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember setting off for Russia with a rather strong sense of what it means to be a feminist. I admit that I had a sort of Western superiority complex in that I didn't understand how, in these times, a woman could stay at home with the children and feel whole. "If I did that," I thought, "I would certainly feel as if I was missing out on half of life's experiences." I thought that I would be a little imperialist and teach Russian women to be liberated. What a disgusting idea, especially since exactly the opposite happened--they...
Russia has undergone a feminist revolution in the mirror image of what has occurred in the United States. Natalia Baranskaia's "A Week Like Any Other" is an especially vivid example of the role of beauty and personal appearance in Soviet life. This story describes a week in the life of a Soviet woman. The heroine receives a questionnaire at work requesting information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research...
...still trying to figure out the logistics of the tight-rope walk between feminist and feminine. I spent much of my later childhood feeling guilty about playing with dolls (I still feel kind of bad about the Barbies). I stole the model car that my aunt gave my brother for Christmas (he eventually appropriated the jewelry box she gave me for his Grateful Dead paraphenalia). I enjoyed building the car, but I enjoyed playing with the dolls...
...moves into the twentyfirst century, Ireland hopes to strengthen alliances within the feminist movement, continue intergenerational dialogues moving and continue advancing the movements...
...best piece of work to have shown at Harvard in the last three years. The talented student cast delivered their own diatribes, as if they were written for a Forensics League contest "Picture the Millennium." Among the smartest was the entry from Dani D. Krasner '97, a feminist rant which evoked her frustration with below-grade men in painfully high-noted terms. Another excellent piece, "Something to Tell You," written by Visiting Director Elizabeth Swados, was a love song in which a male bisexual and female bisexual reveal their orientations to each other at the same time as their "love...