Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the American woman was seeking motherhood or trying to avoid it, she was subjected last week to nerve-racking reports about drugs she might be taking...
...niche of excellence as a sacred barnacle on the good ship Harvard, experienced an unexpected jolt. Now, people were questioning all the privileges and restrictions the Radcliffe community had taken for granted. What was the point of a Harvard education for a girl? Should it prepare her for motherhood, graduate school or a career? How closely should Radcliffe follow the Harvard model? In what ways might the College exploit its unique situation? And, ultimately, what could and should a woman do with a liberal arts education...
...looks of a spirited waif. She plays one in Honey-a little urchin abandoned by her mother and by a Negro sailor who has left her pregnant, later befriended by a pale, homosexual boy who prepares her for motherhood. She is freckled and mousy, with wide-spreading lips and eyes the size of deep-summer plums. But she is an actress, not a slum kitten picked up for verisimilitude...
Heilbrun, a Wellesley graduate, a mother of three and a Ph.D., pursuing a bachelor while pursuing a bachelor's degree makes no sense. Her plan: let women go to college in their early 30s-after marriage and motherhood...
...them-selves," Mrs. Wheeler said. The position of women will not advance, she added, until women are willing to take stands and make decisions for themselves, without first consulting scholarly or neighborly opinion. Because the pressures to conform are much greater on women than on men (witness suburban motherhood, for example) women need more courage than men in order to declare themselves in a given situation...