"I was struck by the whole feminist undercurrent," Mr. Christian said.
"Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" was a cheesy Batman rip-off with a feminist undercurrent.
Together, the art and the book outline a career that seems to have functioned as a kind of synopsis of postwar European sculpture styles: academic, Social Realist, Expressionist, biomorphic abstraction, found-object, Nouveau Realist/Pop, much of it with an implicit feminist undercurrent.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Joss Whedon, the show's creator, imagined Buffy as a program that would offer what he called "an alternative feminist icon," and this he managed through an emphasis on girl power and the feminist undercurrents of the plotlines.
The film was also said to have "feminist undercurrents"; after Joan witnesses the rape of her sister, her crusade is said to become "a fight against male domination and the abuse of women".
As corny and reductive as that may sound in the wake of Donald Trump's election, moral crossroads are what gave us, for better or worse, Bob Dylan's 1960s protest songs, the AIDS epic "Angels in America," N.W.A.'s race anthems, post-9/11 novels like The Emperor's Children and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the feminist undercurrents sprinkled across Beyoncé's recent work.
One also detects an undercurrent of feminist indignation at the old hierarchical assumptions: Harold, in common with many of his kind, refuses to take seriously the idea that a woman, let alone his own daughter, might be a great artist.
"I'd say it's a constant undercurrent, when women write about feminist issues or are exposed in a lot of media for speaking out about sexism they tend to get a barrage of abuse and threats," she said.
Feminism has so infiltrated the women's internet that I'm hard-pressed to think of a women's website – the kind of online properties that have largely replaced traditional women's print magazines – that doesn't have both a strong undercurrent of feminism and at least one explicitly feminist writer on staff.
While a "sexual harassment free-zone" is a prominent narrative of Tahrir Square's atmosphere during the eighteen days of Egypt's January 2011 Revolution, this utopian undercurrent for women was shattered by an epidemic of sexual violence, which feminist and human rights groups have labelled the "circles of hell".
"There's an undercurrent beneath the undercurrent.
