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Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with The Poisonwood Bible (1998). Her three earlier novels, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in Poisonwood, a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with "The Poisonwood Bible" (1998). Her three earlier novels, "The Bean Trees" (1988), "Animal Dreams" (1990) and "Pigs in Heaven" (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in "Poisonwood," a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
...knowledge-based in the sense that it is a foundational course in some of the major texts in women's studies and feminist thought," Schor says. "There's kind of a great works aspect...
That Aucoin endeavors to promote individuality and a feminist viewpoint in a field notorious for imposing a largely uniform standard of beauty is a contradiction that's not lost on him. "I work in an industry with some of the meanest people who have ever walked the face of the earth, who live and die for the surface," he says. "But the way I see it, I have a responsibility to do the most I can do, the way I know how. Since I know how to apply makeup, that's what I do and use it as a platform...
...many ways, Tennant is a typical modern stay-at-home mother. More than 30 years after the feminist revolution of the 1960s sent women hurtling into the workplace, they remain torn by conflicting pressures from family and work. More than 80% of American women have a child at some point in their life, and most of those mothers must decide if and when to return to work. It's a decision many make not once but a number of times as their families and job stresses change. More than half of married mothers with children under 18 do not work...