FILM
03.11.10
FILM, International Film, Hollywood Film, Independent Film, Video Art, Academy Awards, Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow, feminism, Midi Onodera, Mira Nair, Sally Potter, Doris Dorrie, Alanis Obomsawin
(reposted from Matrix Magazine issue #85) The Old Feminism came up with some pretty good slogans. “The Personal is Political,” for instance, still works pretty well! But when the subject of feminism came up in an art history class that I was teaching, I posed this question to my students, most of whom were freshly out of high school: Do you call yourself a feminist? In each class of 30, only one or two students ever said yes, and even then, hesitantly.However! Though this perfectly informal and scientifically un-rigorous survey might dismay the Old Feminists, fear not. The New Feminism only rarely calls itself the “F” word, because so many issues intersect, not only gender. The personal is now more political