Posted on 05/04/2009 12:34:54 PM PDT by Borges
Marilyn French, a writer and feminist activist whose debut novel, “The Women’s Room,” propelled her into a leading role in the modern feminist movement, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 79 and lived in Manhattan.
The cause was heart failure, said her son, Robert.
With steely views about the treatment of woman and a gift for expressing them on the printed page, Ms. French transformed herself from an academic who quietly bristled at the expectations of married women in the post-World War II era to a leading, if controversial, opinionmaker on gender issues who decried the patriarchal society she saw around her. “My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world,” she once declared.
Her first and best-known novel, “The Women’s Room,” released in 1977, traces a submissive housewife’s journey of self-discovery following her divorce in the 1950s, describing the lives of Mira Ward and her friends in graduate school at Harvard as they grow into independent women. The book was partly informed by her own experience of leaving an unhappy marriage and helping her daughter deal with the aftermath of being raped. Women all over the world seized on the book, which sold more than 20 million copies and was translated into 20 languages.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good.
Didn’t come to Sarah Palin’s or Miss California’s ‘aid’....did she? Oh, I forgot. One must hate men to be defended.
I think they meant Radcliffe :-)
Q: How many Harvard girls does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It’s Radcliffe, they are women, and it’s not funny!
The Women’s Room”
“Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes” (p. 433)
So, she’s the original “All men are Rapists” Girl!/s
Your reply was incredibly insensitive.
I remember hearing some people at a party say they were happy Tony Snow was dead, and from that day forward I told myself that I wouldn’t let any conservative friends get away with that crap.
journey of self-discovery
A journey into the depths of *The Feminist BOWEL MOVEMENT!* These self proclaimed feminists,are the definition of *Cowards* Not 1 single Gas Bag Feminist can deal with their own fememnity! I have LOATHED This misrepresenting of The All American Woman! Feminists do not represent me in any way! I love doing verbal battle with a SLANKY FEMINIST. I win every time!
Ancient history.
She could have believed different things and she'd still be as dead now.
And that's pretty much going to be true for all of us.
I think they meant Radcliffe :-)
Radcliffe was the women's college, but I think the graduate schools were all Harvard.
Prayers for a misguided soul.
That's Arthur the Third, son of Pinch, grandson of Punch, and the man they called "Herbert Mitlaüfer."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOZp2ZftCw
Son of Pinch?
For some reason, I always thought Pinch was a Mein Shaft afficionado.
I double your eeks. With that sort of upside down logic then many women are accomplices to rape...often their own!
The offspring of a pinch would be a smidgeon.
Survey says French excel at eating, sleeping (Associated Press May 4, 2009)
What did she have to say about the numerous allegations of rape and sexual harassment against Bill Clinton or the way his staff and wife bitterly attacked the women who dared to step forward?
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