Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So far, so realistic. One imagines them heading for the sort of civilized divorce settlement that people with a fair amount of community property to protect generally work out. No such luck for the Roses. All kinds of good luck for moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter...
She is also offended by the poet's insensitive wartime writings and the fact that Eliot filed for divorce from his emotionally crippled wife while in the United States, an ocean away from the woman to whom he had been married for 17 years.
Not all the changes were the result of feminist ideology. Female employment in the U.S. has been rising since the 1890s, accompanied, not coincidentally, by a rise in the average age at which women marry, a decline in family size, and a jump in the divorce rate. The sole exceptions...
The wage gap and the segregation of women into low-paying jobs, together with the lack of affordable child care, take their greatest toll on unmarried women, particularly single mothers. Today more than 60% of adults below the federal poverty line are women, and, contrary to popular mythology, the majority...
The best part of this volume can be found in the 16 stories following the unfinished novel. Five have never been published, and the rest were never collected in hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to...