keywords: Annette Benning
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 June 2017
Abbie introduces Jamie to the paired liberating movements of punk rock and second-wave feminism. Both lead to illuminating experiences, from his first rock concert, use of alcohol, and kiss, to being beaten for casting aspersions on a peer's grasp of female sexual anatomy. His relationship with Julie on the other hand provides a difficult counterpoint. His peevish concern over her promiscuity is largely possessive; his theoretical understanding of women's agency falling down in the face of adolescent hormones.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in
its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to
conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than
biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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