Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this is a scatological work or a racy read about a rich scientist-businessman. Instead, it is an earnest attempt by a talented writer to redraw the profile of the typical macho American giant to conform to more feminist and environmental ideals. In this, Simpson seems to be invading territory that Jane Smiley opened in A Thousand Acres...
Moore called Hillary Rodham Clinton the only redeeming factor in the election, praising her true feminist leadership as a strength in the White House and calling on male Americans to acknowledge her talents rather than belittle them because she is a woman...
Some students also supported curricular changes, citing the dearth of course offerings in feminist jurisprudence, gender discrimination and sexuality...
That said, I am convinced the Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest modernist novelists and feminist writers, will go down in history not for her perfectly shaped sentences but for her understanding of the subtleties of sauce and gravy...
...same time, Kingston has been labeled a radical feminist, a fake and a traitor to her Chinese heritage. But the popularity of her books is incontestable. These antinostalgic nonfiction memoirs recount the sometimes fantastical tales of her childhood. Many times, her own life-stories are intertwined with myth and story-telling, as if Kingston herself had a hard time distinguishing between the two. This melding of fact and fiction has brought criticism from some quarters, and praise from others...