Word: feminist
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Clarke seems distinctly, and unashamedly, unaware of what she has done with this show. At a discussion with Clarke last Monday sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, facilitator John Rockwell’s voice rang with exasperation as he pushed Clarke to explain her interpretation. Did a feminist interpretation, he asked, determine the play’s opening scenes—which feature Karen MacDonald as an impudent Hippolyta, swollen with mute resentment of her husband Theseus (John Campion), the top-heavy emblem of dour autocratic unreasonableness? Clarke didn’t think so. “Quite...
Ensler penetrated the public consciousness in 1998 with The Vagina Monologues, a collection of women’s descriptions of and reflections about their vaginas. The work emerged from a conversation Ensler had with a friend. While discussing menopause, Ensler’s friend, a self-proclaimed feminist, complained about how much she hated her vagina. Distressed to hear a woman, a feminist no less, speak this way about her vagina, Ensler began asking her friends to share impressions of their vaginas...
With understandable reason, the feminist movement has largely overlooked or dismissed Britney. She is more closely associated with male masturbation than female liberation. But with her November 2003 album, “In The Zone,” Britney came out of the closet as—if not a true-to-God feminist—a true-to-God masturbator, and that’s good enough...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...