Word: feministic
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...himself yet not be afraid to use the tools of the West to his own ends. Mali's chanteuse Rokia Traore, conversely, is a diplomat's daughter who grew up around the world but uses her native tongue, Bamanan, and Malian instruments on spare and lovely songs like the feminist Mancipera, which calls for the liberation of African women from subservience. For Traore as for the American folkies of the '30s and '60s, mastering the traditional music of her homeland figuratively allows her to claim a true connection to her people and her native roots even as she seeks...
...kind of sympathy usually expressed at a feminist rally. But if Reno wants to be the first female Governor of Florida--she is expected to announce this week--this is the kind of "centrist" note she will have to sound in her speeches. Often. On the one hand, since most of Florida's Democratic voters are in liberal South Florida, where Reno lives, the primary is hers to lose. But if her party wants to unseat Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2002--exacting revenge for last fall's disputed presidential election and dealing a mid-term body blow...
...wife Frida Kahlo, not a great painter by any reasonable judgment, but a tough and gifted woman who, owing to her hagiographic suffering (not to mention being ardently collected by the likes of Madonna), has become Exhibit A, by now somewhere above Artemisia Gentileschi in the pantheon of feminist art-saints. The live Colombian is probably the richest artist alive, the unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps of cellulite have the same appeal...
...kind of sister who for better or worse acquainted generations of parochial schoolers with Catholic discipline. But the liberal church activists who came to hear Chittister speak last week at a Los Angeles conference knew better. They were aware that Sister Joan, her vows notwithstanding, is a longtime feminist firebrand in the midst of a daring gambit. "If Scripture has nothing at all to say about the ordination of women," Chittister asked, "on what basis do we use Jesus as our right to obstruct it?" Her audience thought for a moment, clapped and finally broke into cheers...
...mythological quality. She was a privileged nonentity - a mother and housewife, with all the meanings, and demeanings, that that ruffly serfdom suggested in 1963. She rose to the occasion. She became an exemplary woman in power in a way that was all the more persuasive because she was without feminist ideology. Her life was the story itself, the action, not the commentary...