Word: feminist
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...sick and tired of the notion that being a full-time parent means a workingwoman has given up on the feminist cause. Feminism was meant not to turn women into men but to give women the freedom to choose to work inside or outside the home. Having lived in Germany for seven years, I appreciate that it is truly difficult for German women to combine career and children, yet the endless comparison of earth mother vs. career mother is pointless and divisive. It is important to realize that nowadays educated, experienced women like me are not necessarily wasting our skills...
While Adams House dining hall buzzed with dateless undergraduates on Valentine’s Day, the private dining hall was more likely to feature the buzzing of vibrators. Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a discussion yesterday about the complexities of feminist relationships. The group set up two divergent camps, with one side advocating an acceptance of chivalry and the other calling for the end of female submission by criticizing penetrative sex. Such stimulating topics attracted an eclectic group of over a dozen students of different genders, races, and sexual orientations. While some found the feminist relationship—whereby...
LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
...forms: the indelible images of the true auteurs and the bumbling scenes of the faux artistes. Director Harmony Korine’s work in “Living Proof” is of the latter variety, suffocating a graceful song.Korine’s attempt to make a surrealistic feminist document begins with a pseudo-parody of the modern hip-hop video, as a baggily clothed black man bounces his hand next to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and points at his car’s rims. To emphasize this, the frame shifts to conceal Marshall?...
...polarizing figure, Friedan ultimately drew criticism from her feminist colleagues for her conservative stance on issues like homosexuality. She insisted that the feminist movement remain in the American mainstream, and condemned those who characterized men as enemies and rejected family life...