Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This rebirth in morality will replace the politics of this century, which are already winding down around us. The great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...
...There's been a lot of criticism of the final scene [in Chronicles]," says Wasserstein of the heroine Heidi, art historian and feminist, who chooses to have a child rather than further pursue her career. The conclusion disappointed some '60's femanists whom Heidi represented and sparked criticism that Wasserstein believed "women couldn't have it all." Since the play is far more personal than political, the controversy naturally miffed Wasserstein somewhat. "How they could have that kind of interpretation, I don't know," she smiles, "but the ending [of the TNT production] was not a response to that criticism...
Douglas Day Stewart's script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...third ongoing battle for women's rights legislation is in the broad attack on the feminist movement," Strossen continued. "We [the ACLU] believe that all rights are indivisible and if the government violates one right of one individual, no right is safe for anybody any more...
...poetry, Atwood manages to avoid the sentimental preachiness so evident in an openly feminist writer such as Marge Piercy. Part three of Morning in the Burned House takes up explicitly feminist and female concerns, but Atwood's transition between the personal and the political is seamless, maintaining a crucial, delicate balance...