Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt to confer on suburban motherhood something of the esteem that pioneer women once enjoyed. From the affluent housewife's suicidal despair in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," it was not far to The Feminine Mystique...
...wasn't eager for the part," says Actress Lee Grant. No wonder. The part was that of Sophie Portnoy-the smothering mother who gives motherhood a bad name-in the movie version of Philip Roth's bestselling novel Portnoy's Complaint. "During the filming, I would look at myself in the mirror and feel that I had disappeared," Miss Grant recalls, "and here would be this awful person that I couldn't shake until the movie was over." Actor Dick Benjamin, who plays Portnoy, seems to have felt the same way. "We worked beautifully together," says...
...surprising to find Harvard Student Agencies engaged in questionable commercial ventures which exploit their Harvard connection and the "motherhood" of student scholarships for personal financial gain. But for sheer effrontery and tackiness, it would be difficult to top their most recent excursion into entrepreneurial sleight-of-hand...
Insult to Motherhood...
...have upheld laws that forbid women to work as bartenders. If a man bartender becomes rude or obnoxious, one can always slug him over the head with a beer bottle, but what do you do to a woman bartender under similar circumstances? Women tending bar are an insult to motherhood. They should be home looking after their children...