Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout history, Faludi argues, any time women tried to loosen their corsets and breathe more freely, they met with a suffocating counterattack. In the 1980s this backlash surfaced in the Reagan White House, the courts, Hollywood and, above all, the mass media, whose collective message to women went something like this: Feminism is your worst enemy. All this freedom is making you miserable, unmarriageable, infertile, unstable. Go home, bake a cake, quit pounding on the doors of public life, and all your troubles will go away...
...family values" agenda was the rhetorical basis on which Reagan and Bush and scores of other Republicans swept into office, thanks to the votes of millions of women as well as men. Feminism, meanwhile, lost many of its government sponsors. Support for the Equal Rights Amendment reached 60% in 1981, only to be defeated the following year; the number of women seeking out battered-women's shelters soared, but federal funding shrank and the Office of Domestic Violence was shut down. Complaints of sexual harassment climbed 70% between 1981 and 1989, but a congressional study found that caseworkers were rarely...
...doing. The man who laid down his terms to Congress last week is the same dogged tactician who forged the framework for the Arab-Israeli peace process last year during eight painstaking shuttles around the Middle East. As a seasoned political strategist, a former campaign adviser for Reagan and manager for Bush, he seems to have calculated that antipathy to foreign aid is a more powerful election-year force than the usual voter support for Israel. He also seems to be betting that if Israel does not come around on the settlements before its parliamentary elections in June, Shamir will...
...moderate Republican seeking the presidency applauded Rockefeller's stance. "Two-thirds should be more than enough to gain the nomination," George Bush said in 1979. But as it wasn't for Rockefeller, so it wasn't for Bush. Unlike Rocky, though, Bush finally got the message. To join Ronald Reagan's 1980 ticket, the man who had supported Planned Parenthood and a host of liberal domestic positions anathema to the right reinvented himself as a "reformed" pro-lifer and social-policy conservative...
...invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show." Second, Bush forthrightly supported Frohnmayer in March 1990: ". . . the Federal Government," said the President, "((shouldn't get)) into telling every artist what he or she can paint." Bush stood up -- and standing up is everything. Ronald Reagan understood that principle of leadership (and political survival) better than anyone else. The polls routinely described an electorate disaffected from a wide range of Reagan's policies. But his support held because he was seen to have the courage of his convictions. Bush's problem is that he is increasingly...