Word: womanizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threats to equality in the workplace and the right to reproductive privacy. An activist for tribal rights writes a history of her beleaguered Minnesota reservation. Two Radcliffe graduates detail their experiences as students and teachers in Beijing during the rise and fall of the pro-democracy movement. A Jewish woman writes about a movement to feminist Talmudic scholars; a Black woman writes of her experiences confronting apartheid while traveling in South Africa...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
Wattleton wears the burden, though she would call it the honor, of being a role model. As a black woman, divorced mother and crusader for family planning, she feels the pressure of being held up as a symbol, and she is determined neither to let up nor to let anyone down...
...feared that all she had worked for was in danger when the Supreme Court handed down its Webster decision this past July, permitting states to narrow a woman's access to abortion. Planned Parenthood, the nation's oldest and largest family-planning organization, is also the premier institution providing abortions around the country, and Wattleton is fiercely dedicated to protecting that service. She had visions of Roe v. Wade being overturned, and spoke darkly of a return to the era of back-alley abortions...
...noisy," she says. Witness the recent national Mobilization for Women's Lives and the elections in New Jersey and Virginia in which voters selected pro-choice Governors. Wattleton asserts that she does not want her teenage daughter to be fighting the same battles she is. To that end, this woman who looks like a Hollywood version of a corporate queen is bringing her signature style of passionate rationalism and measured indignation...