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Ultimately, Beauvoir wanted to have it both ways. Rebuffing the idea of a fixed female essence, Beauvoir envisioned a woman who realized herself in economic and social independence. At the same time, she upheld the need for gender difference, however qualified, deriding women who denied their femininity and became no more men than women in the process. Since gender equality entailed neither difference nor imitation, and the biological binary of XX and XY occluded any middle ground, Beauvoir seemed to render all feminist stances equally untenable...
...privacy of their own home, the relationships between Kate, Steve, Mick, and Jenn are not so far off from recognizable family dynamics. Moore, who doubles as the matriarch and the head of this particular advertising “unit,” skillfully imitates the ambitious career woman who puts her job before emotional intimacy, and constantly pressures her family members to reach their full “potential...
Like a scarlet letter, an accusation of plagiarism is perhaps the most devastating fate that can befall a man or woman of letters. Doris Kearns Goodwin, for instance, will never quite enjoy the same reputation she had before scandal erupted over an unquoted passage in “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys;” Stephen E. Ambrose, who copied from no fewer than twelve sources over the course of writing seven books, may as well be known as academia’s Samuel Mudd...
...it’s not that a woman has never hosted a late-night network talk show: “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” aired for less than one year, premiering in the fall of 1986. Since 1983, Rivers had served as Johnny Carson’s permanent guest host, a fairly major coup in and of itself. But when Rivers learned she wasn’t one of the frontrunners under consideration for the “Tonight Show” spot if Carson were to step down, she was furious...
Smelling blood in the water, FOX swept in and offered Rivers her own program. Time-slotted to compete with Carson, it would fail miserably. A woman host, it seems, was interesting only as a novelty...