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...corner of the grassy Great Court, which served as a gathering place for the lunchtime throngs, Saudi Arabian women lectured on a feminist interpretation of the Koran. In another, a black American conga drummer from Harlem spontaneously threw up her arms and shouted to the assembly, "You have changed my life!" In yet another, a raven-haired Bolivian in a felt bowler talked excitedly to a veiled woman from the Western Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled...
Without doubt, both the forum and the U.N. meeting had their cacophonous, disorganized and divisive moments. Skeptics felt that the gathering, even at its most high-minded, was fundamentally unimportant and ineffective. Before the conference took place, Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, a committed feminist, dismissed it as "one giant commemorative stamp." But for many participants, particularly those at the NGO forum, the significance of Nairobi was found less in the official proceedings of the U.N. meeting than in the peaceful and joyous way the swirling mix of women from the developed nations, the Third World and the Soviet bloc...
...gender empowerment, according to the U.N. Development Program's 2004 report. Swedish women earn more money and hold more high-level political offices than their counterparts abroad. Child care is provided by the state, and although the Prime Minister, Goran Persson, is a man, he is also a "declared feminist." So what is Sweden's new political party, Feminist Initiative (FI), fighting for? "We have systematic wage discrimination, a growing problem with violence against women, and images of women as sexual objects confront us every day," party leader Gudrun Schyman told TIME. "What we need is to mobilize women...
Predictably, many of the party’s interests groups howled in protest. “Have we gotten this desperate to win?” a prominent feminist asked...
Fonda insists that what the public saw--in this case, the most widely reported middle-aged divorce since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's--was not the confused end of yet another phase but the assertive debut of her complete feminist self, a project that had been quietly flourishing while the marriage deteriorated. When Fonda decided to stay in Atlanta after the breakup, it was widely presumed she did so to stay close to Turner. In fact, she says, she moved into her loft so she could be nearer to the downtown offices of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy...