Thatcher, Margaret

Crowfoot s research group steadily expanded in the postwar era, and it included workers from around the world one undergraduate student was Margaret Roberts (Mrs. Thatcher), who later changed her career direction to become Prime Minister. Crowfoot decided to limit the group size to 10 researchers so as to maintain the interactive environment of the group. A Rockefeller Foundation investigator commented that the lab was... 

These signifiers of clitoral self-empowerment present a powerful rejection of the phallocentric intrusion of the symbolic father in both Lear and their husbands. This anticipates and prefigures the complex dialectics of gender, desire and power in the construction of the reactionary iconic persona of the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, elected to power eight years on from the play s premiere. 

See, for example. Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Mrs Margaret Thatcher, to Parliament on 4 March 1988, reproduced in Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Arms Control and Disarmament Quarterly Review, No. 9, April 1988, p. 3. 

Psychiatrist Never in western history has there been less emphasis on the common good. What did Margaret Thatcher say ... 

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