Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...territory that Steinem and Faludi staked out. Their message was that women were being fed cynical lampoons of feminists and not-so-subtle suggestions that liberation was responsible for any feelings they had of frustration or of "superwoman" tension. Steinem in particular countered such propaganda by preaching self-esteem...
...used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
...male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie doll. All that changes when Nancy emerges from an auspicious UFO encounter a full 50 ft. tall. She is toughened by her size -- a giant awakened. It is time to exact revenge for the past...
...would have thought? A year ago 110 new representatives were elected to Congress, the largest such number in forty years. Faced with the double crisis of the problems of our nation and low public esteem, Congress was changing...
...sense of self that it seems impossible to go on without it. In addition to major losses in real life, this may also occur when one feels unable to live up to expectations held by others, expectations that have also come to define one's own sense of self esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance has led to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self-destructive behavior...