Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analogy is significant. Feminism can be as compelling a tool for her generation as Marxism has been for a century of radicals. But where the student revolt was geared by an ideology, programmed toward a solid goal, Feminism, at least for the time being, is more fluidly formed; it founds itself on faith more than anything else, faith in the possibility of an independent female identity. Feminist activism could fire away for all it was worth at external targets like job inequality and economic dependency. But it hasn't directly touched the deepest impulse of Feminism; it hasn't rescued...
...year for radical student revolt, 1969 was the heyday for militant Feminism. Mention "'69" to anyone who participated and watch the lines in her face tighten with nostalgia. She too looks as if the phrase were but an echo, or a ghost of an activism that passed away somewhere, she's not sure where...
They threw away their bras as a symbolic breaking loose, they foreswore make-up in revolt against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status...
...others, anti-'femininity' meant anti-sex. Sex gaged in the old market exchange, where you sold yourself to guarantee that you got from men the security you paid for, was intolerable. Revolt against traditional masculine expectations often went hand in hand with rejection of the men who couldn't see it happening any differently. Jeans and workshirts like the men's were like battle flags worn to advertise defiance, "Take me now, I just dare you to try." Here, revolt against one form of maladjustment carried women into another neurotic adjustment, neurotic simply because nobody wanted to deny her sexuality...
...failure of the revolt could work in Allende's favor. Now that his advance warning about a right-wing rebellion has been substantiated, he could use fears of further coups as a pretext to clamp down on his enemies, who are both numerous and powerful. Allende has already extended the state of emergency to the entire country and, as a further show of his strength, invited supporters to stage mass demonstrations to celebrate "our victory...