Word: feminist
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During her year away, Pedersen said she plans to complete research for a book she is writing on Eleanor Rathbone, a feminist and social reformer who was a member of British Parliament during the two World Wars...
...recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...
Intent plays an extreme and important role in the creation of art. Karen Finley, for example, enjoys parading her body and getting drunk and acting like a lunatic. Granted, she says she has her feminist reasons behind what she does—although her whole life stands as a hypocritical opposition to those beliefs—but she doesn’t develop what she believes in and wants to express and then finds the best medium to express that. Instead, she finds the medium she likes, and then does what she wants, and finally ascribes meaning...
...initiate her own funerary pageants. “Written in Sand” is about the process of mourning. Viewers enter a candle-lit room and write the names of loved ones who have died of AIDS in sand on the ground. She has also continued to work with feminist themes. “Relaxation Room” is a commentary on the sanitization of childbirth and consists of three large photographs of a baby’s bloody head emerging from woman’s vagina during labor...
Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...