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There are numerous skeptics, including female religious thinkers. Carole Fontaine of Andover Newton Theological School, for one, complains that feminist writers delete historical evidence that is "embarrassing or contradictory." Carol Meyers of Duke University argues that there is no proof that the figurines cited by Gimbutas were objects of worship, much less representations of a single Goddess. None of that, however, has deterred adherents. Whether they are reviving a vanished faith or inventing a new one, it is the gender of the deity that counts...
Vivian Twostar -- part Navajo, wholly feminist -- is an assistant professor of anthropology, desperately seeking tenure. As the story laboriously unfolds, Vivian gives birth to a daughter by her once and future lover Roger Williams, poet and English prof. She is a sensual, lapsed Catholic Earth Mother. Roger is Mr. Stuffy: a New England Episcopalian with neat-freak closets and a kitchen full of name-brand gizmos...
...Feminist Leanings...
...Thursday of that same week, Mary Joe Frug, 49, a feminist legal scholar at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, was left to die on the Sparks St. sidewalk, stabbed by an unknown assailant...
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. A suave beast (Patrick Bergin) tracks down his abused wife (Julia Roberts) after she has faked her death and escaped his clutches. A good idea for a feminist thriller soon degenerates, under Joseph Ruben's direction, into a wheezy lady-in-distress melodrama. Paging Barbara Stanwyck...