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She graduated from Hunter College High School and received her BA in literature from State University of New York at Purchase in January 1985. [23] [24] She received a master of arts in cinema studies in 1988 from the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science. Dargis married wine expert Lou Amdur in 1994. They live in Los Angeles ...
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
Steve York: Documentary: Otpor! 2003 To Kill a King: Mike Barker: Historical drama: Revolution, England: 2004 In My Country: John Boorman: Historical drama: Anti-Apartheid Movement: 2005 V for Vendetta: James McTeigue: Political action film: Revolution: 2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach: Historical drama: Irish War of Independence ...
Tyler Perry has dedicated the past quarter-century of his career to giving voice to Black women on stage and screen. With “The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his ...
The novel was a New York Times bestseller the year it was released, 1977. [10] In June 2004, a sample of 500 people attending the Guardian Hay Festival included The Women's Room in their list of the top 50 essential contemporary reads, demonstrating that time has not diminished the importance of French's novel, [ 11 ] and as of 2009, The Women ...
The women's liberation movement also criticized the sexualization of women through beauty standards of sexuality in the 1960s. The New York Radical Women, a radical civil rights, New Left, and antiwar group, protested against the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In 1869 the women's rights movement split into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments, with the two factions not reuniting until 1890. [13] Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). [13]
Around 1 in 4 working women (26 percent) were not contributing to their retirement in 2022 or 2023, as of August 2023. Among working women saving for retirement, nearly 30 percent don’t know how ...