Word: postfeminist
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...MOST SURPRISING THINGS ABOUT THE 1991 Battle of the Sexes was that it was so full of surprises. After the feminist revolution of the '70s, the postfeminist age unrolled in the '80s amid musings about "mommy tracks" and the installation of diaper-changing facilities in airport men's rooms. By the '90s Americans were supposed to have moved on to more subtle issues about enhancing everyone's quality of life, letting women define themselves as individuals, letting men be warriors or frogurt eaters, as they choose...
While the Senate is full of selfless older women, happy to substitute the life of the office for a life, it also has a huge contingent of postfeminist younger women, who think being asked to walk the dog and clean up after the mutt is the price one pays for invaluable experience. Says an aide to a Democratic Senator on the Judiciary Committee: "You know what the code is, and if you want to be involved, you know what you have to tolerate. It's happened to me, and I never call anyone on it. You have to show...
Wilson is, in fact, Radcliffe's first postfeminist president. A precise thinker, the scientist-administrator would certainly not be comfortable with such an ill-defined term--but neither is she with describing herself as a feminist...
What will it take to get there from here? Those coming of age in the postfeminist era have their own ideas...
...postfeminist era, however, women's issues are not always Topic A. Today's female comics, says Leifer, also perform "material that a man could do." A case in point is Boosler on airline absurdities, doing an Alan King staple her way: "The pilot says, 'We are currently hurtling through the air at 500 m.p.h. Please feel free to move about the cabin.' Then you land. You're rolling to the gate at 1 m.p.h. and you hear: 'You must remain seated for your own safety! Sit down!' I'm wondering, could we take off again? I need my coat from...