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...years, especially among the more politically committed women artists; and no doubt it will produce its abundant quota of bad, programmatic ideological illustration. No matter. The important thing is that the assumed imbalance of talent in the visual arts has begun to alter, and that Virginia Woolf s sadly true remark, " 'Anonymous' was a woman," may not describe the future...
Among contemporary dramatists, Edward Albee has displayed some of the most seething animosity toward women. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha pours molten lava of abuse and contempt over her professor-husband George, both privately and publicly. Though he does the same to her, she has clearly emasculated him even before the action begins. Then she tries to cuckold him in their own house with his younger colleague, but in her arms the colleague, too, proves impotent. "I am the Earth Mother," she brays. "You're all flops...
Oppression. Many of these courses emphasize a long history of discrimination and denigration. Joanna Russ, an English instructor at Cornell, is trying to change the rules whereby, as she recalls her own education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Liz Taylor before she turned 40. With The Dove, a short parody of Bergman that may spoil Wild Strawberries forever, Orson Welles, 4, 7, 9:45, Sun. through Tues...
Alfred said last month that the Starr Book Shop had been responsible for a "breach of contract" when the salesman refused to sell him valuable letters written by Virginia Woolf that were inside a book he intended to buy. He sued for value of the letters...