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...twitchiness that occasionally mars Renée Zellweger's performance in the title role. Potter, however, is made of willful stuff. She finds a publisher (Ewan McGregor) for her books, falls in love with him, achieves best-sellerdom and, in this telling of her life, status as a largely overlooked feminist icon and an early environmentalist...
...other Bond woman has displayed such emotional complexity, although a few have come close. Pussy Galore threw a few feminist punches in “Goldfinger,” but eventually succumbed to the irresistible aura of 007—then rendered as a debonair playboy by Sean Connery. Craig’s Bond is less suave and more sardonic; Green’s Vesper also has barbs aplenty up her masculine suit jacket sleeves to sling back at her nemesis and future lover...
Troy frequently refers to Hillary as a feminist first lady, and implicitly links what he views as Hillary’s struggle to find the perfect balance between wife, mother, and “co-president” to the discussion of a woman’s role in the United States. “She rejected the simple media polarities whereby traditionalists were happy homemakers and feminists were humorless careerists,” he writes. “Hillary Rodham Clinton set out to prove to feminists and anti-feminists alike that modern career women could be good...
Feminista, the Spanish word for feminist, is much more stigmatized than its English counterpart, Aldana said...
While feminism faces such stereotypes everywhere, the term is particularly negative in Latin America, which has never experienced a strong feminist movement, said Cristina A. Herndon...