Word: feministic
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...other, far less professional productions by the Harvard Summer Theater Program such as a recent production of "The Bathtub," I find it inexplicable that you have overlooked this wonderful piece of theater. "Cloud 9" is not only an entertaining play; it is an important play as well. Churchill's feminist representation of gender roles and the politics of sex is just as relevant to the greater Boston area in 1992 as it was in 1979 England...
...then, that your paper has overlooked a production that everybody should see, when in the past you have been not the least bit reluctant to review productions that lack any semblance of artistic or political merit? Your failure to print a review of this feminist play suggests a patriarchal, rather conservative political agenda and a stubborn unwillingness to approach the theater with an open mind...
...press. It is high time that all publications realize that progress will never be made on issues of gender relations as long as attention is devoted exclusively to conventional drama at the expense of productions like "Cloud 9" that raise important questions without going overboard with excessive radical feminist rhetoric...
...made civil rights issues suddenly vital to young middle-class men who had not previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many gay men, sick or well, to spiritual values. It partly bridged a widespread gap between gay men and lesbians, a chasm based on arcane feminist dialectics or simple lack of shared life-style, because those concerns seemed trivial when compared with life and death. Says Eric Marcus of San Francisco, author of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, a new oral history of the movement: "In the mature sense...
...gender terms, AIDS has advanced lesbians to positions of leadership, in part because so many of the erstwhile male leaders are dead or dying. It led many gay women to reconsider their theoretical feminist rejection of homosexual men as simply a more extreme version of the "masculinist" enemy. But some lesbians increasingly complain that despite their new power, their own agenda of women's issues -- including pay equality, affirmative action and legal recognition of gay marriages -- keeps getting pushed aside in deference to the epidemic...