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...When Ms. magazine featured a Harvard professor on its cover last December, it sold more copies than a month earlier, when the feminist periodical spotlighted celebrity rock star Bette Midler...
...academic with the big selling power was Carol Gilligan, associate professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, who Ms. named "Woman of the Year...
...months after the Ms. story. The New York Times also focused public attention on Gilligan, heralding her as a "vanguard" of a movement of new psychological research on women...
...Fifty is what 40 used to be." That may be news to mathematicians, but it seemed to make perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away...
Although the media may put similar pressure on men, I believe that it is considerably weaker. It is notable that Ms. Collins' Dynasty co-star, John Forsythe, is hyped and accepted as a sex symbol despite his grey hair and paunch. I will agree that there is promise of a change in media and cultural attitudes toward the middle-aged woman when I find a 50-year-old female romantic lead who is permitted a few bulges and veins. Lisa D. Haas...