All In The Family spawned several spinoffs. Maude was the feisty opinionated liberal cousin of Archie Bunker’s wife Edith, who was introduced on All in The Family in a 1971 episode superbly acted by Beatrice Arthur. Maude began in 1972 and ran until 1978. Bill Macy played Maude’s husband Walter who owned an appliance store, ...
In the early sixties, Second Wave feminism was born and women were questioning their roles in life. Women born of the housewife generation were wondering if they too would lose themselves in the mundane chores of cleaning house and tending to one’s husband. The Stepford Wives, a horror movie made in 1975 by Bryan Forbes, ...
Aside from a reader’s initial reaction to Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming” akin to visiting a Freudian fun-house, one must consider whether they ought to read it as a literal story or more as something figurative. The decade in which the story was written and first staged is important to its interpretation. The 1960s was a ...
Salman Rushdie’s Shame would seem to promote female activism toward gender equality in Pakistan if only through interpretation of Sufiya’s violence against male oppressors. When one considers the methods which Rushdie pushes readers to understand women within Pakistan, Shame more clearly promotes a Western perspective of hopelessly oppressed Pakistani women. As Rushdie gives readers an ...
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