Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need...
Although Wilson's measure has won bipartisan praise in California, some people believe the initiative is simply a new way to sound tough on crime in the guise of social compassion. "It's a hollow gesture," says Katherine Spillar, national coordinator for the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It would be a lot better to put the money into social services and into education for young women and men." Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie...
...racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority, who has been active in NOW since 1967: "Is women's rights the priority issue for the N.A.A.C.P.? No, nor should it be. NOW is losing its focus as the pre-eminent organization for women...
...thing, given her three sessions a week with a world-renowned feminist therapist, is that she doesn't seem to grasp how thoroughly dehumanizing the princess business really is. Her interview on bbc last month was full of husky-voiced self-pity and dewy gazes from a coquettishly down-tucked head. But there wasn't the slightest awareness that her problems go beyond an adulterous husband and an emotionally disabled mother-in-law. She even seems to think the reason Charles dislikes her is that she outshines him at what she calls their "work," meaning presumably the daily round...
...least a few professors at other universities agreed that the French section of Harvard's Romance Languages and Literatures Department emphasizes feminist theory to a greater degree than it does other literary approaches...