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Road picture, feminist parable and populist comedy, this tale of two ladies looking for adventure and getting more than they bargained for outraged the humor-handicapped, but dug into the ribs of the ribald. In the title roles, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were gloriously wiggy...
Road picture, feminist parable and populist comedy, this tale of two ladies looking for adventure and getting more than they bargained for outraged the humor-handicapped, but dug into the ribs of the ribald. In the title roles, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were gloriously wiggy...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
...much more aggressive view of Mary is emerging from feminist circles within the church, emphasizing her autonomy, independence and earthiness. Old- fashioned views of the Virgin, complains Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a Fordham University professor of theology, "make her appear above the earth, remote and passive," with "no sex and no sass." She adds, "There's still a strong element of that in the present hierarchy...
...pregnant, and not some distant feminist or crisis-prone soap opera character. I had to decide whether to have an abortion or bring my fetus to term. For a month I had been feeling moody, physically ill and consistently hungry. Yet there was something very exciting about the realization that I was pregnant, that I was fertile and could conceive; I couldn't help thinking that I could give birth to a baby who would perhaps love its mother very much and grow into a wonderful human being...