Word: motherhood
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...mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder whether Madonna understands that...
...since he has given the slender actress the weightiest role of her career (and also maybe because somehow it doesn't seem as feelthy coming from a gay guy). The Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodóvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property...
...collective conscience. For her, social awareness should not just take place in the classroom.“It’s very easy for us to intellectualize and moralize and be distant about how we analyze issues. [Today], we’re still dealing with [issues like] single motherhood and homelessness and you can’t walk down a street around Harvard and not see people asking you for change. This play really removes the blind from your eyes...
...passionless,” asexual beings? Conversely, can we really say that “same-sex marriage” is “well understood without discussion of gender issues” when arguments against same-sex marriage constantly invoke gender norms of fatherhood and motherhood (“children need a mom and a dad”), and when marriage has played such a large role in constructing these gender norms (like who goes to work and who stays home with the kids...
...SIMILAR note, the Yale Daily News delves into the results of a new study that appears to counter that much discussed front-page story in the Times last fall: "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood." Yale's women's center asked students about their career and family aspirations, and how they might intertwine: According to the study, 87.6 percent of the men surveyed said they are planning to become parents, while 78.4 percent of women said they plan to have children. The study found that men and women are equally likely to continue to work full...