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The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.
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The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.
Femspec is a feminist academic journal specializing in speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, mythic explorations in poetry and post-modern fiction, and horror.
The decade also saw the framing of FGM — along with other issues in the domestic sphere, such as dowry deaths — as a human rights violation, rather than as a health concern, and this encouraged academic interest, including from feminist legal scholars.
In feminist literature and academic discourse, the term has been used occasionally as an " economical way " to describe feminist efforts against a male-centered canon.
Joanna Russ ( February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011 ) was an American writer, academic and feminist.
* Barnita Bagchi: Indian feminist and academic
Camille Paglia, a self-described " dissident feminist " who has often been at odds with other academic feminists, argues that the Marxist-inspired interpretation of misogyny so prevalent in second-wave feminism is seriously flawed.
Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.
The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money ( 1955 ), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards ( see below ).
Biologist and feminist academic Anne Fausto-Sterling rejects the discourse of biological versus social determinism and advocates a deeper analysis of how interactions between the biological being and the social environment influence individuals ' capacities.
* Dorothy Dinnerstein ( 1923-1992 ), feminist activist, author and academic.
Frame's writing became the focus of academic criticism from the late 1970s, with approaches ranging from Marxist and social realist, to feminist and poststructuralist.
In 2011 Jennifer M. Woolston published an academic essay examining Nancy Spungen's life from a feminist perspective.
Australian academic and writer, Kerryn Goldsworthy, writes that " From the beginning of her writing career Garner was regarded as, and frequently called, a stylist, a realist, and a feminist ".
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ( January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003 ) was an American academic and prolific feminist author of both important academic studies and popular mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
Her academic books include the feminist study Writing a Woman's Life ( 1988 ).
Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective.
Non-heterosexual is used in feminist and gender studies fields as well as general academic literature to help differentiate between sexual identities chosen, prescribed and simply assumed, with varying understanding of implications of those sexual identities.
* Women's Classical Caucus, an academic classical feminist organization
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.
Mary Daly ( October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010 ) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian.
Well-known members of the group included the writer Pat Califia and feminist academic Gayle Rubin.
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ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, and Pulitzer Prize winner and The Ants author Bert Hölldobler.
* 1937 – Joanna Russ, American author and feminist ( d. 2011 )
The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.
She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.
* 1926 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author ( d. 2003 )
Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.
* 1959 – Nina Hartley, American porn star, author and feminist
Julie M. Thompson, a feminist author, connects misandry with envy of men, in particular " penis envy ," a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1908, in his theory of female sexual development.
* 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
* 1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
* 1946 – Catherine MacKinnon, American feminist and author
Susan C. Faludi ( born ) is an American feminist, journalist and author.
* October 27 – Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author and gay rights activist
* September 10 – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist author ( b. 1759 )
** Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist
** Anne Roiphe, American author and feminist
* April 27 – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist author ( d. 1797 )
The work of noted feminist author Kate McPhelim Cleary was featured during the opening of the Nebraska Day ceremonies at the fair, which included a reading of her poem " Nebraska ".
* Naomi Wolf, author and feminist
On a more secular note, feminist author Margery Hourihan has described the book as a " banal and mechanistic story which is written in flat, impoverished prose " and dismissed the central character from the movie adaptation of the book as " the girl-woman of Hollywood ".
On the same subject, American feminist theorist and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler wrote in the scholarly journal Diacritics an essay entitled " Further Reflections on the Conversions of Our Time ", in which she described the shift in these terms:
Vandana Shiva ( Hindi: वन ् दन ा श ि व ा; b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India ), is a philosopher, environmental activist, author and eco feminist.
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