Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fashion spectacle, paparazzi-jammed galas, mindless sex talk--is this what the road map to greater female empowerment has become? If feminism is, as Gloria Steinem has said for decades, "a revolution and not a public relations movement," why has it come to feel so much like spin?
It is fair to ask why anyone should be worried about this outcome. Who cares about the trivial literary and artistic pursuits of a largely Manhattan-based group of self-appointed feminists? They're talking only to one another, after all. But the women's movement, like many upheavals before...
Part of the reason for Riot Grrrl's impact is that it often focused on the issue of childhood sexual abuse. Not only did the songs relate harrowing personal experiences but the band members started 'zines and websites through which teenagers who had been molested could communicate with one another...
While home in Arizona earlier this month, I was able to witness the royal send-off granted the state's favorite son, former Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Goldwater certainly received his share of praise while alive. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and saw his name adorn...
It's not clear how deeply she has preplanned them and how much they are inspired responses to the shifting circumstances of her shiftless victims. But in a day when intricate plotting has become a lost art, one of Cousin Bette's great pleasures is its capacity to plausibly surprise...