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...always out of a sense of sacrifice. The summer movie season, usually a men-only province, was commandeered by a phalanx of women: teen dream Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), lonely heartthrob Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping and The Net), ex-Marine schoolteacher Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) and a feminist princess named Pocahontas. Right now, with How to Make an American Quilt, Now and Then and Home for the Holidays, the plexes are awash in sisterhood cinema. And male moviegoers aren't just staying home wishing Monday Night Football were on seven times a week. They are going to the mall...
...There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist critics an unease about Promise Keepers' position on the man's authority within the family.(a speaker once wrote that men should "treat the lady gently and lovingly--but lead"). He notes, however, that "even in Evangelical churches today there are a lot of women in the work force,'' and "working...
Amis invented this type of sentence, an interior monologue in which wicked and decorous thoughts alternately keep bubbling up, striving for the mastery of an uneasy conscience. The object of this attention, of course, is a wife, a woman, and such moments of imaginary violence drew severe feminist criticism, particularly as they resonated throughout Amis' novels Jake's Thing (1978) and Stanley and the Women...
...WOMAN AND A FEMINIST, I WAS OUTraged to read of nothing but racial issues in articles about the verdict. Before the trial, O.J. Simpson was never much of an advocate for African Americans. Everyone involved in this fiasco did his best to confuse the real issue of domestic violence, the reason Simpson was brought to court the first time. It is obvious that our society still considers domestic violence a private matter rather than an important human-rights issue. KATE SULLIVAN, Plainfield, Vermont...
This rebirth in morality will replace the politics of this century, which are already winding down around us. The great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...