Word: feminists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First feminist. First spinmeister. Megawatt celeb. So might our age judge her. To 16th century England, Elizabeth I was the original feminine mystique: goddess Gloriana; Virgin Queen; finally and enduringly, Good Queen Bess. The most remarkable woman ruler in history can claim few traditional princely achievements, yet she gave her name to an age. Hers was a prodigious political success story built on the power of personality: the Queen as star. A woman so strong, a politician so skillful, a monarch so magnetic that she impressed herself indelibly on the minds of her people to reshape the fate of England...
...sister's cultural development, I was instantly on the job, and on Christmas morning she unwrapped a new Janet Jackson CD and a new 90-minute mix tape from me, titled "Girls with Guitars." Within a few months, the mix tape had triumphed, and she was passing feminist folk music along to her friends--kind of scary...
Oppenheim writes that feminist activists need "to take a little time-out for a good old-fashioned reality check," arguing that "Surely, sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault are issues that belong to everyone. Why are women's meetings any more deserving of protected space than anyone else's?" While issues such as sexism and sexual assault might "belong to everyone," the victims are disproportionately female. Their experiences are unique and can be emotionally and physically debilitating. The reasons for assault extend beyond the simple realm of "public safety" and into the more complicated ways in which gender hierarchy...
...level of participation and the muted visibility of this feminist activism continue to plague Harvard. Oppenheim, perceiving women's groups merely to be a place for fuzzy self-esteem games, questions the existence of the Ann Radcliffe Trust at a time when advocates for women's issues should no longer remain silent. Oppenheim shows his lack of understanding when he asks, "As for the existence of 'emotional support,' don't we all need a bit of that?" Perhaps what's really needed at Harvard is not a women's center to address intricate issues of gender politics, but a center...
Surrounding this parasite of literature is a cast of characters as diverse in chronology as they are in personality. There's an angry and suicidal Ernest Hemingway who acts as Garnett's servant, the under-recognized and frustrated feminist author Djuna Barnes, the heroine-addicted mother of Eugene O'Neil, and the aforementioned Anas Nin, played with delightfully French self-absorption by Karen MacDonald. Not to mention the entire cast of characters from The Brothers Karamazov, with Alyosha Karamazov (played with effective, i.e. not annoying, wholesomeness by Sean Dugan) serving as Durang's Everyman character in this absurdist romp...