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...other national pavilions, the best is the American one, showing sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Now 81 and at the top of her form, Bourgeois is the chief heiress of Surrealist obsession in America. Though her work is sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where...
...number of his legislative initiatives made some progress through Congress, and he finally named his candidate for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Byron White. A quick Senate confirmation was expected for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington and a pioneering feminist lawyer. Ginsburg was praised by both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, though some women's groups were nervously reviewing her position that the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling was the right decision but based on the wrong grounds. Only two days before the President named Ginsburg, his aides told...
...escalating series of brazen falsehoods? Published in April, the book gradually garnered positive reviews, is now into its sixth printing and is lodged in third place on the New York Times best-seller list. Brock, who works ; for the conservative magazine American Spectator, depicts Hill as a left-wing feminist, a woman of "radical views and inflamed sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped to handle. Brock has a bad habit of raising a conjecture on one page only to restate it as a fact on the next...
...Yorkin sits in the high-tech Los Angeles office of the Feminist Majority Foundation, an organization she co-founded and into which she has poured $10 million. Her worth has been estimated at up to $100 million. The RU 486 "genie" is "out of the bottle," she says. To get it to American women, "we are prepared to do whatever we have...
...Although feminist critique and the study of gender as a factor in shaping history are not uniquely identified with women scholars, some see a tie between the presence of women and the study of gender...