Sentences with phrase «as a feminist icon»

Besides being riotously entertaining, her trailblazing career as a feminist icon was incredibly inspiring.

She was an outstanding backbencher and a champion for humanity who should be recognised as a feminist icon.

Hannah says it was Gloria Steinem, many years younger than Graham, who took Graham aside and said it was time for her to accept her role as feminist icon.

This film celebrates Ginsburg as a feminist icon, tracking her fight for women's rights from her appointment during the Clinton administration to the present day, but it makes room for inquiry into Ginsburg the woman, too.

Sarah Jessica Parker had shot scenes as feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who wrote an article on Lovelace and helped her as she reverted to her real name, Linda Boreman, and became an anti-porn crusader.

Far too many people have tried to pigeonhole her Mildred Hayes as a feminist icon or straightforward heroine, but that gives the role, and her performance, too little credit.

A friend of left - wing writers and artists she was adopted as a feminist icon during the 1960s and 1970s, at which time she moved to the Upper West Side.

While her amusing architectural pieces hold traces from Minimalism and Land Art, North Carolina - born and South Carolina - raised artist's status as a feminist icon is indisputable.

Wonder Woman as corporate flack or as feminist icon?

«That Florence Nightingale would repeat and circulate such descriptions is something to reflect upon the next time you hear her praised as a feminist icon,» Mohamed said.

Not exact matches

People in China and Japan are, to some extent, buying what Trump's selling: her image as a have - it - all feminist who's masterfully balanced her roles as successful entrepreneur, mother of three, and style icon.

But it was her turn as the tough - talking princess who defies the Evil Empire in «Star Wars» two years later that rocketed her into fame and turned her into a feminist icon at the tender age of 19.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Kelly, who has become something of a feminist icon thanks to her tangles with GOP nominee Donald Trump, is seen by many inside Fox as the future of the network.

An irresistible timely lift - the - flap board book featuring lush illustrations of your favorite feminist icons as adorable babies!Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mae Jemison, Frida Kahlo, and others were change - making feminists, they...

George Eliot was such an incredible woman; I consider her a feminist icon for the way she proved, at a time when women's intellectual abilities and contributions weren't taken as seriously, that a woman could produce literary masterpieces that were just as compelling, if not more so, than that of any man writing at that time.

I don't necessarily think Parker is a fantastic choice to play the feminist icon, and I much preferred the rumored Mary - Louise Parker as Moore's replacement.

Seeing a lucrative opportunity in challenging King to a one - off, winner - take - all, televised exhibition match, Riggs» public performance as a «male chauvinist pig» (putting the «show back into chauvinism») made it difficult, if not impossible, for King to reject Riggs offer without compromising her public persona as a women's rights advocate and a feminist icon.

In Far from the Madding Crowd, Carey Mulligan is brilliant as Bathsheba Everdene, capturing all the complexities of a character who was in her day as much an icon of feminist independence as Katniss Everdeen is in ours.

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

For years, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon was hailed as a geek - friendly icon of feminist ideals, an illusion that finally came crashing down in the wake of a brutal blog post from his ex-wife Kai Cole last year in which she accused him of being a hypocrite for talking about feminism while...

On the other side of the extreme was Lara Croft from Tomb Raider who with her curvy figure but preference for traditionally «masculine» activities, managed to serve as both sex symbol and feminist icon.

Hellen van Meene captures Zarina Green as the bearded lady saint, Uncumber, an unlikely feminist icon for our troubled times

The «mother of American modernism» and the world's most - expensive woman artist, this pioneering feminist painter is a true American icon, as famous for her lifestyle in the rugged New Mexican desert, as for the large paintings of flowers that are her best - known works.

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Mary Tyler Moore, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

Her writings were rediscovered in the 1970s when she served as an icon for both the LGBTQ + and feminist movements.

The audience will have an opportunity to see works by the feminist pop icon Evelyne Axell, but also the social commentary as evident in works by Danny McDonals, Raymond Pettibon or Peter Wächtler and conceptual works by the likes of R.H. Quaytman and Mario Garcia Torres.

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

At the fair itself, special projects include the free sculpture park boasting big names such as feminist art icon Kiki Smith and Thomas Houseago, whose messy take on macho modernism has made him a rising star.

It is fascinating that Frankenthaler has become a sort of feminist icon, or at least a revered role model, for her own views on her status as a woman artist appear to have been fraught.