Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Half a dozen firefighters took control of the rescue, opening the outer door to the shaft, shutting off power and telling Lonoff to open the inner door of the elevator and climb down...
Sexual freedom--the right of women to control their own bodies and create the terms in which their sexuality can be expressed--is basic to the issue of personal freedom in which the Women's Movement is grounded. To assert, as Dines-Levi did, that women are defined solely by their mass-produced and mass-marketed images is to suggest wrongly that women cannot make choices about their own bodies...
...violence against women--and not images--that prevents women from taking control of their own bodies. It is real, material oppression of women within the law, within our economy, within our social customs that is the issue. Images represent the form, and not the substance, of such oppression, and to pretend that the problem can be solved by violating others' rights of free expression and privacy is an irresponsible and dangerous argument...
...support and affirm a woman's right to control her own body and her own life is at the heart of the Women's Movement. Rape and sexual violence against women directly threaten those values; so does censorship of women's sexuality. Neither should be condoned...
...federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta estimates there were about 1.3 million abortions in the United States in 1985, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The Guttmacher Institute estimates nearly 1.6 million abortions for that year...