Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your cover story "Is Feminism Dead?" was more about pop culture than about feminism [SOCIETY, June 29]. You have marginalized those who care about feminist issues, such as pay equity and the glass ceiling, implying they are an "elitist" group with little connection to mainstream women and their aspirations. You missed analyzing one of the most significant developments of our century, the progress of women into nontraditional roles and their emergence as a major economic and political force. Nor did you address the persistent inequities that remain. Perhaps only when women are better represented in the boardrooms and upper management...
...today's society, a powerful and assertive woman is often labeled a feminist. However, your poll shows that less than 30% of women today consider themselves feminists. The term feminist, it appears, is almost regarded as an insult, reserved for women who want to conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving...
...good spokesperson for the feminist movement, nor have I ever aspired to be. I have been attacked in the pages of your magazine both for being an antifeminist and for not being effective enough as a young feminist leader. Which is it? It seems to me a sad state of affairs when every young woman who writes about culture is judged on whether she is a "good feminist." Women should be judged for the individual voices we are, not for whether we conform to an outdated vision of what a good feminist is. It is a sign that feminism...
...missed a central trend that has reduced the number of women who identify themselves as feminists and encouraged the current feminist obsession with sex: the arrogation of the feminist movement by radicals like Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin who turned the focus of the women's movement away from equal rights and equal pay and toward viewing sex as a form of domination. And it was in conscious rebellion against these leaders that "pro-sex" feminists like Camille Paglia and Naomi Wolf set the stage for the current trend of celebrating female sexuality. MARY KENDALL New York City...
...African-American feminist and the editor of Ms., the pre-eminent feminist publication in the U.S., I was deeply offended, but alas, not terribly surprised, by "Is Feminism Dead?" Nah, TIME just doesn't get it. That you could do a story on feminism and not talk to the editors of Ms. reflects either ignorance, arrogance or an obvious bias. I think the latter, since you chose to ignore the breadth and depth of feminists' concerns and activism, exactly what Ms. reports on. Feminism and the women's movement are alive, very well and clearly focused on women's economic...