Word: feminist
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...telling what you'll find," he sniffed. Carville trashing trailer parks! It was like Shamu making fun of Sea World. The liberal cave-in was good news for lechers everywhere. A boss paws his employee, drops his drawers, asks for some non-job-related assistance, and the feminist establishment wonders whether this really can, in fact, within the confines of the law, be called, as a technical matter, you know, sexual harassment. The question turns, apparently, on the boss's feelings about federally subsidized child care. "We've got a legal system, and it works," chirped Senator Carol Moseley-Braun...
...finally she has taught us a great deal about our nation's Feminist-in-Chief, its leading Sensitive Guy. In public Bill Clinton surrounds himself with the Donna Shalalas of the world, the Alexis Hermans and the Janet Renos, the admirable career women of the 1970s ideal. But alone in a hotel room, with a trooper as emissary, it is the Paulas of the world he wants to see, with the permed hair and the puce lipstick and the long, blood-red nails--the gals with that come-hither look. There are things we probably shouldn't know about...
...made her a human being far ahead of her time. She saw activism as the most important solution to improving the world, which she believed was suffering a nervous breakdown. "People should reach inside themselves and claim their right to equality," she would say. Of course, she was a feminist, but more than that, she was a humanist who fought against the pain, isolation and oppression that she felt women had experienced...
...part, she never let the intense criticism that she encountered silence her. "If I...worried about mudslinging, I would have been dead long ago." Yet she insisted that she was not a feminist. She did not believe, she maintained, that "women should be judged, when it comes to appointing them or electing them, purely because they are women." She wanted to see the country "get away from considering a man or woman from the point of view of religion, color or sex." But the story of her life--her insistence on her right to an identity of her own apart...
...friends and colleagues ever suspected would become a fundamentalist. He grew up in Cairo's affluent Zamalek quarter, the privileged son of Ihsan Abdul Koddus, a liberal writer with close ties to Egypt's revolutionary hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. His grandmother was Rose al Youssef, a Lebanese-born early feminist, a flamboyant actress and magazine publisher...