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...enough the ties between the two groups are strained. Black America tends to be religious, opposed to gay rights, for example. And for Wolfe, Black culture provides a far more realistic understanding of manliness. Rap music of LL and DMX celebrates male prowess in a way that terrifies post-feminist whites. Indeed, Roger Too White, the Uncle Tom-style lawyer in A Man in Full, loses his blackness by allowing white society to emasculate him. Sexual temptation is the urge within him to return to his own race. In his 1970 essay on "Radical Chic," Wolfe described a fundraiser...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Wolfe in Chic Clothing: FM Examines Tom Wolfe's Dubious Masculinity | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...Feminist, activist and author Susan Sontag last night discussed her latest piece of historical fiction, In America: A Novel, a work that she insisted is not only a story, but is a novel about storytelling...

Author: By Katherine M. Marino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feminist Author Sontag Discusses New Novel About Immigrant Life | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...insurgency happened early enough - and with enough force - that he was able to get his act together. "Gore recognized pretty quickly that he had to get out there and work hard for women voters," says Tumulty. And work he has. After hunkering down with a team of advisers, including feminist author Wolf, he's changed everything from his wardrobe to his talking points, bombarding women's groups with pointed talks on Social Security and women, health care and women, abortion rights and women. Bush, on the other hand, seems to be losing his grip on his female lead - a slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Gore? Follow the Women Voters | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...Fonda, a two-time Academy Award winning actor who is widely known for a series of exercise videos, has worked as an advocate and leader in the environmental and feminist movements. She also founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention...

Author: By Chondita S. Chatterjee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fonda Calls for More Studies of Teen Girls' Issues | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave deftly sketches the quiet hell of a woman unable to share her grief for her "friend" with the unwitting in-laws. A butch townie (Chloe Sevigny of Boys Don't Cry) in "1972" rattles her college-student lover's gay-feminist pals, for whom short hair means gender treachery, but the daring setup devolves into a pat Afterschool Special for lesbians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's Les-bien | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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