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E. Definition of Terms
Some specific terms will be used in this research. In order to make a better understanding and get the same idea from the research, this section
will represent some definition of terms that are used in this research.
1. Post-feminism Theory
Brooks 1997, she states that post-feminism today is not about
what comes after feminism, but it is about the conceptual shifts within feminism. In addition, Braithwaite 2004, states that post-feminism is
now a label for a wide range of theories that take critical approaches to previous feminist discourses.
2. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret is the first woman to hold the position as Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. During her three terms, she cut social welfare
programs, reduced trade union power and privatized certain industries. She has served the United Kingdom as a Prime Minister for eleven and a half
years, from May 4
th
, 1779 until her resignation on November 28
th
, 1990. She died on April 8, 2013, at age 87.
3. The Iron Lady Movie
This movie is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher Meryl Streep, the first and only female Prime Minister of the
8 United Kingdom. One of the 20th centurys most famous and influential
women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. Much more than a
biographical epic, the film is also the surprisingly intimate journey of a common grocers daughter whose social ambition and steel will -- along
with the love of her husband and confidant, Denis Jim Broadbent —
propelled her to unprecedented power. Combining fact, fiction and poetic flight of imagination
– as well as flashbacks -- director Phyllida Lloyd creates a portrait that reveals the many faces of Thatcher: the hard-nosed
conservative; the woman who demolished the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife and mother who longed to
change her country for the better.
This movie was made in London, 2008. The story began with the elderly former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares breakfast for
her husband Denis, as she has every morning of their married life. Denis is alive only in her imagination.
Once described in life as “always present, never there”, Denis is still present for Margaret. Is he a loving memory made flesh? A
manifestation of her grief? Or perhaps her conscience, taking her to the task?
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