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- Rivers never copped to being directly influenced by the feminist movement, but her jokes challenged the male establishment which preferred its women seen but not heard. Rivers demanded to be both. She will be remembered as both a feminist trailblazer and a workaholic, but one could not exist without the other.
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Feb 16, 2015 · Joan Rivers was a survivor of a sexist era: a victim, a rebel, and, finally, an enforcer. By Emily Nussbaum. February 16, 2015. If Rivers’s act wasn’t explicitly feminist, it was radical in...
Sep 5, 2014 · Unlike some of today’s top stars, Rivers’ has explicitly identified as a feminist. In a 1986 interview with Playboy , she proudly claimed the title, explaining that she didn’t always feel...
Sep 4, 2014 · Feminizing Comedy. Though Rivers—especially as she aged—let jokes about her looks roll off her back, she says she was the first female comedian to refuse to try to be one of the men. The few...
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Mar 24, 2018 · Few women have made as big (or as loud) a splash in Hollywood as Joan Rivers. From the red carpet , to multiple memoirs, to her daytime talk show, she took no prisoners; she was quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and had jabs for every celebrity going, including herself.
Dec 2, 2016 · Rivers’s uneven feminism — and frequently jaw-dropping meanness — is also revealed in her antithetical relationship to beauty.
Sep 8, 2014 · Since her death a week ago, a number of tributes to Joan Rivers have called her a “feminist icon“—mainly, it seems, because she was a trailblazer and door-opener for women who wanted to make it to the major leagues of comedy and because she was so unstoppably driven in her own ambition.
Sep 5, 2014 · Rivers never copped to being directly influenced by the feminist movement, but her jokes challenged the male establishment which preferred its women seen but not heard. Rivers...
