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...mean, I don't think any of this is conscious. I've noticed the tendency to refer to Naomi Wolf, me and Gloria Steinem as the quote-unquote yuppie feminists. It's this phenomenon where two or three women are picked out as feminist spokespeople, are elevated and then trashed in hopes that 'well, we've attacked them, gotten them out of the way, so feminism itself can be discredited...
...still outstanding is a tenure offer to Duke professor Naomi Schor, a specialist in 19th century French literature. Schor's acceptance, say officials, may be based on Harvard's finding an endowed chair for her, but also on finding a position in the Cambridge area for her husband Paol Keineg, an adjunct associate professor of Romance studies at Duke...
...story is not just in the sales. Wynonna and Naomi Judd's pay-per- view TV special in January drew more viewers than did similar specials by the Rolling Stones and New Kids on the Block. In a year when the income from the top 10 rock or pop tours declined 32%, country acts increased their revenues 40%. The recently published autobiography of Ralph Emery, Nashville's answer to Johnny Carson, who is the host of Nashville Now, a live show on the Nashville Network (TNN), has been on best-seller lists for 17 weeks. In just two years...
...picture of the backlash has more to do with the messages that permeate everyday life, through television and movies, through fashions and advertising. Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth got readers talking about why women starve themselves, have breast implants, apply acid to their face to peel off the wrinkles, and why fashion magazines came to favor photo spreads of women wearing dog collars and chains and penciled-on bruises. It is on issues of symbol and representation that Faludi and the newly bred backlash theorists have the most fun and start the liveliest arguments over who really represented...
...Naomi M. Hamburg '92 was a member of the Date Rape Task Force...