Word: post-feminist
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...magazine in which this ad ran must be Cosmopolitan or Glamour or even Better Homes and Garden--one of the mass circulation women's magazines that has survived the women's movement and settled comfortably in this post-feminist age. The magazines which speak to notion that women work but secretly worry more about sex, having babies and getting married than about the presidential election and the trade deficit. The magazines that feature articles on "10 Ways to Get and Keep a Man" or "My Garden, My Hobby." One would assume that harmless articles like that would appear...
...pretends to be perplexed by the problems of its underclass, Lessing offers a message that is both progressive and reactionary. Dorothy emerges as the hero, but she is a throwback to a time when women and the lower classes were, if anything, worse off. Lessing's depiction of the post-feminist world of the 1970s offers the vision of a grand-mother, rather than that of a young crusader. Lessing's nostalgic proposal looks backwards and is, ultimately, no proposal...