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...Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...
...Madison Avenue lesbian who rides not only to live but also in order to challenge societal constructs of femininity. The great thing about Dot (besides the lipstick holder attached to her bike's rearview mirror) is that she is completely unaware of her own place in the annals of feminist history, even though she rode a bike long before our mamas were born. "I was a woman in a man's world", she muses nonchalantly from her chaise lounge. She lives in a retirement community, entirely outside the scope of mainstream feminism, and if she were to be asked about...
Rophie said she considers herself a feminist, but "some feminisms are better than others," she explained. Current feminism, she said, confines women to Victorian notions of gender and sexuality...
While undergraduates at Harvard may feel less inclined to preach a feminist party line than did Katie A. Roiphe '90, students interviewed yesterday still disagreed with the controversial writer on several issues...
Roiphe's book The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus challenges such "mechanisms of intellectual taboo" which silence those who disagree with mainstream feminist views, Roiphe said in her speech...