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...London journalist Helen Fielding, Bridget is a bundle of frail funk, preoccupied by short skirts, long nails and yo-yo dieting. She has mother issues, toxic-married-men issues, smoking issues and VCR-programming issues. She affects irony, so you know she is deadly serious about her postfeminist problems--find a gym, find a guy, find a low-cal chocolate. If only she would find a life. And a brain...
Stressing cooperation between the sexes rather than con- flict, Wilson's style was tagged by The BostonGlobe as "postfeminist...
...Buffy the Vampire Slayer More than just an action series about a 15-year-old superheroine, the WB's Buffy is a wry satire of suburban teenage life (the unhip are described as having discovered "the softer side of Sears") and a postfeminist parable on the challenge of balancing one's personal and work life. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has vampires to kill, but she also has to find the time for boys and Ben & Jerry...
Fleming, 38, is not the only contemporary classical singer to upend those stereotypes--Dawn Upshaw and Anne Sofie von Otter are also known for being good colleagues, devoted mothers and accomplished pop singers--but she may be the first to combine postfeminist independence with old-fashioned glamour. In person, Fleming comes across as cheerful and unassuming; onstage, she is one of the most vividly expressive personalities ever to take an opera-house curtain call. Appearing this fall in the Met's production of Manon, she bewitched audiences and critics alike with her compelling portrayal of the title character, a teenage...
This would all be a postfeminist embarrassment if Albright's wiles hadn't been so successful. Bitterly opposed to the worldwide chemical-weapons ban, Helms relented during Albright's pilgrimage to Wingate and let the treaty proceed to a Senate vote, where it was ratified. Although Helms feels toward the United Nations about as warmly as he does toward gays and lesbians, at Albright's behest he is working on a bill to pay $819 million in back dues that the U.S. owes...