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...meaning outside that which society conferred on them, but they still had an objective reality: In Beauvoir’s understanding, they placed real constraints on the projects that women could undertake. Enmeshed in the reproduction of the species, woman’s life was inherently directed toward means??producing and caring for other beings—rather than ends—those concrete projects that would enable her to realize her full human potential...
...Yale’s speed deficit caused it to resort to other means??holding and hooking—and it was these compensation efforts that...
...least a week in advance.” It’s true. It is also true that criminals are less stingy than the gluttonous rich. The book makes the comparison that those with “large modern day fortunes [that] were amassed through the most dishonest means?? are as bad as stingy smokers that refuse to offer their whole pack lest someone takes more than...
...Although some students’ reactions to the beauty pageant seem to indicate a challenge to traditional gender conventions, the protest was far from radical. But such action was not limited to the pageant. In 1959, Radcliffe women would start to quietly question norms of domesticity through similarly muted means??and the Radcliffe they knew, and the world they lived in during their undergraduate years—would soon become a vestige of a bygone era.BEGINNING TO BEND THE RULESOver a dozen members of the Radcliffe class of 1959 said that though they realized there were gender disparities...
...beckons all to join him as he praises the Unchainable Squawk and all other manifestations of free and open performance. This unusual blend of artistry departs from today’s streamlined, stylized media and is a refreshingly thought-provoking take on what “performance” means??art that stresses interaction rather than mere reaction.“I go home with all these images that are boiling up inside me and they are all unique images,” Kidd says. “They were not given...