feminist – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) | John Derek

May 8, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

Set in 1910, virginal Jane Parker (Bo Derek), a feminist who thinks women should be able to explore the world the same as men. She travels to Africa to find the father she never knew, renowned explorer James Parker (Richard Harris). James, who abandoned her when she was an infant, thinks Jane is the spitting […]

She-Devil (1989) | Susan Seidelman

March 7, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Roseanne Barr stars as Ruth Pratchett, a devoted wife to her accountant hubby Bob (Ed Begley Jr.), and mother to two precocious children. One day while attending a swank party, Bob meets and eventually has a fling with best-selling romance novelist Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep), and while they do their best to keep things under […]