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...away, I know I'd end up in the nut house." Though she is against abortion ("It's murder") and worries that some mothers use day-care centers as a substitute for child rearing, she is in sympathy with most of the aims of Women's Lib. Her one reservation is that "in order to get into the system, a woman has to become like a man and is, therefore, probably no better...
Lauretta is not anti-Women's Lib. She believes in equal rights and equal pay, and that women should be well represented in big corporations, on boards of directors and in industry, "particularly when it comes to designing." She also believes that day-care centers are inevitable. But of her own life-style she says: "My first priority is my family and my husband's work, and then I work on other things...
Opposition also comes from minority-group women, who often characterize Women's Lib as oriented toward white, middle-class professional women. Among black women, a debate has long raged over priorities: black liberation before women's liberation. Others have argued that it is necessary to reconstruct black family life first. Says a Houston woman: "Within the black community, most of the women are working both financially and emotionally to bolster their men. Black women want to unliberate themselves from the role as head of the house. We feel it is now up to us to help...
Says Chicana Leader Cecilia Suarez: "Our issues are bread-and-butter ones; Women's Lib is trying to get equal job opportunities, but we are still trying to get our women into school. We have special problems. For example, our meetings have to be in the daytime, because the average Spanish-speaking husband won't let his wife come out at night." Nonetheless, minority participation in the movement has grown in recent months...
...characterize the married woman's life as prostitution, argues University of Michigan Psychologist Joseph Adelson, "denies tacitly our contemporary conception of female sexuality, one that sees it as mutual, in that the woman seeks as much as she gives." In these instances, Adelson says, Women's Lib returns to "the dark world of Victorian pornography...