Word: feminist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will likely be snagged up in partisan pettiness. Republicans, who hate everything associated with Bill Clinton, will never lift a finger to help his favorite restaurant. While at the same time, the small Tory party will prefer the Burger King to the plebeian clown. And the legislation will lose feminist support unless there are matching funds for Wendy?...
...animator Tex Avery turned Little Red into “Red Hot Riding Hood,” a Hollywood stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf as a slavering date-rapist, or both. Anne Sexton’s poetic version from Transformations gets...
...McGovern and Carter campaigns and used his tenure as attorney general to fight for consumers. He is an anomaly for both Arkansas and 1978. He said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales tax; his wife is an ardent feminist who uses her maiden name, and he is a competent jazz saxophonist. He looks like a Kennedy and even breaks his campaigning for impromptu touch-football games. Along with Alabama's ["Fob"] James, 44, Florida's [Robert] Graham, 42, and South Carolina's Richard Riley, 45, he is part...
...1950s "women's pictures" (magnificent obsession, all that heaven allows, imitation of life). Universal Studios decreed the improbable luxe of their suburban decor and the oversaturated colors of the films' palette. reviewers of the time dismissed these films (though audiences lapped them up), but over the years academics, feminist theorists and the ga-ga cinephile community have insisted on a re-evaluation. They see in Sirk's films' sympathy for his painfully repressed heroines a slyly subversive assault on the bland values that strangled them...
...trying to create a feminist community, our social activities have inherently political content,” she says...