Margaret Thatcher is the first woman ever to be Prime Minister in Britain. She sits at the head of a cabinet dominated fiction and filmscript writer, told the New York City last year that Margaret Thatcher's rise to power gave her On the left we reprint Susan's speech

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have a monopoly on the word revolution. women is a struggle that will last our lifetimes and It really is a revolution, and I don't think we should be afraid of using that word. Leninists do not It is a radical event for women to participate in power, with a new understanding of power. It will change the world - not in a simple sense, as some feminists have hoped: I do not believe that women stand for fundamentally different values from men, view.

Does Margaret Thatcher's dynamic rise to power set women to follow? Is her Premiership a bold step the revolution?

Susan, Sontag's view is only possible if you look at Thatcher simply ignore class loyalties.

Margaret Thatcher is a Tory through through. She enterse. She is a racist who urges British people not to allow their culture be swamped by wallie She is a jingoist WOO affirms that supreme loyalty is to her While post-tras Nature Margaret Thatcher is out to change the nature of power.. In Britan * not between women and meh but between employer and Socialist Challenge holds a different employees.

It is true that women heads of state common today than fifty years ago, and this is of • femimist reflection social reality. Women in general have more control over their lives than preas viously.

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Elective of individual failure confidence of women who are not so fortunate Margaret Thatcher. Contempt tev top can been stung by strident monetarist', the pictures of Thatcher background, 'wanted for displayed display in Tor butch bodyguards.

thinks sexual oppression is "joke' mother and a inadequate in dealing with Margaret Thatcher.

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