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VOL.XXVII No. 44 THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 2, 1982 90￠
14133 1982 NEWS GROUP PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Why Women Don't Express Themselves
By Carrie Rickey

For an American woman in 1982 to disclaim her feminism, to be male-identified, is like a 1938 Berlin Jew calling herself a German. Although members of the oppressed group identify with the oppressor as a strategy for self-protection, women—feminists or "postfeminists"—are going to be among the first to lose their hard-won status in an economy where our president claims unemployment figures are inflated because women are counted among the jobless. As though women don't need jobs. Take the art world as a microcosm. The latest mode, "Neo-Expressionism," is touted as a celebration of penis-as-paintbrush, a resurgent virility precluding (Continued on page 79)