Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, the original owners of Ms.--a non-profit foundation headed by Steinem and other holdovers from the women's movement--sold the magazine to an Australian media group which promptly introduced advertising into the previously uncommercial monthly. And, with the publication of last month's issue, ownership of the magazine changed hands again--this time, two women took over Ms., touting the sale as a victory for women in the publishing business...
...strayed from the path which its feminist founders envisioned for it. No longer is the magazine an irreverent, politicized bible for the women's movement. Instead, it has become a version of Cosmopolitan--with a pseudo-social conscience...
...what may be the best insight into how the magazine now distorts the original lessons of its feminist foundation. After describing the turbulent events that led former Miss America Myerson to shoplifting, the article goes on to explain how Myerson's problems reflected larger problems with the women's movement...
...Women's Movement, I often think that we may have opened Pandora's box...We forgot that we are different from men; we are other, we have different sensibilities," the article says, in an attempt to explain Myerson's downfall...
...retreating from the Women's Movement, conceding to the demands of the business world and mistakenly thinking that because "we are everywhere" there is no need to press on, the new, woman-owned Ms. magazine does itself and its readers a disservice...