Smiling on the January 1987 cover of Ms. , the magazine co-founded by feminism pioneer Gloria Steinem, are its 12 Women of the Year. They include a U. S. senator, a renowned novelist, a former nun who helped Central American refugees. And, smiling brightest of all, Dolly Parton. The beloved country superstar, who died this week at 80, never embraced the feminist label. In fact, she eschewed it when asked, just as she carefully avoided political labels. But a label is just that — a label, and...