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...wear the frilly accoutrements of American femininity to her rock concerts. Her signature was baby-doll dresses and lacey see-through T-shirts. But instead of prancing around like Shirley Temple, Love snarled bad-ass lyrics through her smeared make-up as she shredded the oppressive emblems of womanhood. Her fans, mostly young women dubbing themselves riot grrls, reveled in her rejection of Barbie-doll femininity. Once, in their fervor, they tore off all her clothes after she threw herself into the mosh...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Love and Femininity in America | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...themes of her poetry really center around womanhood and sisterhood and female identity," said Bright, who is also co-founder of the Spoken Word Society...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poet Wins BMF Woman of the Year | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: MEG GREENFIELD | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive. We do not feel pity, but rather, we experience a slice of the disillusionment felt by the youth of the Cultural Revolution (such as Joan Chen herself...

Author: By By SUSAN Yeh, | Title: Cinemanic | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive. We do not feel pity, but rather, we experience a slice of the disillusionment felt by the youth of the Cultural Revolution (such as Joan Chen herself...

Author: By Susan Yeh, | Title: CINE MANIC | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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