“Half a century ago, most female musicians did not care about their appearance: what mattered was how they sounded. Indeed, a ‘high priestess’ attitude seemed to be positively encouraged; anything visual was downplayed so that the music could sing out unimpeded.” With the priorities given different weight these days, “has the pressure on young women musicians to look like supermodels gone too far?”
Tag: 05.05.09
Women’s Room Author Marilyn French Dies At 79
“Marilyn French, a writer and feminist scholar whose provocative 1977 novel ‘The Women’s Room’ captured the frustration and fury of a generation of women fed up with society’s traditional conceptions of their roles, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City.”