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What other 19th century novel that aims to teach girls conventional morals and decorum has been so enshrined in the feminist honor roll? In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir recalls it fondly; of course, she identified with the bold, artistic Jo. In a 1983 essay, feminist Nina Auerbach suavely co-opts Alcott, concentrating on Marmee's counsel against materialism and Jo's determination to be unconventional...
...womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini Alvarado) embraces domesticity; Amy (played as a child by Kirstin Dunst of Interview with the Vampire, as a young woman by Samantha Mathis) embraces -- and shapes up -- the boy next door. And poor retiring Beth (Claire...
...Mary Jo Bane, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Linda Carlisle, commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Social Sciences, spoke at the forum, which was titled "Children and Families: How Should Government Help...
...Mary Jo Bane addressed the issue of federal control over locally-regulated programs. While admitting that federal policies have a limited effect at the local level, she said that "the process of writing [federal] regulations could bring about a change in climate...
...past five weeks have been a voyage of culinary discovery for Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, the O.J. Simpson defense team's jury consultant. One day she would join Simpson's lawyers for burritos at La Golondrina, another day it would be angelhair pasta at Epicentre or sushi at Horikawa. The cuisine was rarely the same, but the luncheon agenda never varied: how to pick a jury likely to find Simpson not guilty of first-degree murder. Life during jury selection was quite different for Don Vinson, jury consultant for the prosecution. Vinson tirelessly fed the responses of potential jurors to Judge...