Word: motherhood
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...argue that they are only being realistic. In many cities and suburbs, a culture of violence and drugs has crushed young people's hope for life's rewards. Hundreds of thousands of students drop out of high school. Many young girls find their only source of self-esteem in motherhood. "We can pierce the disillusionment a lot of kids have by providing clear, concrete incentives," says Michael Carrera, an adolescent-sexuality expert in New York City. "Maybe our means wouldn't have to be so dramatic if this were the 1940s or 1950s. But this is the 1990s...
...African-Americans, by contrast, the socio-economic legacy of slavery and segregation continues to be passed generationally and manifests itself today in disproportionately high levels of Black inner-city poverty, crime, and illegitimate motherhood...
...strident attempt to assert the validity of more "alternative" definitions of feminity, the exhibit certainly lacks a perspective which addresses more "standard" sources of feminity such as motherhood or heterosexual love...
...claustrophobic minutes, Berri locks viewers inside Zola's 19th century coal mines, where death by cave-in seems only slightly worse than the 12-hour-a-day life sentences that are the miners' jobs. Aboveground too, everything seems a dark metaphor for exploitation. Sex, marriage, even motherhood are tainted by capitalist precepts: a woman's basic job is to keep the workers sated and breed more of them...
...characters and relationships more than make up for this lack. Angie can be simultaneously selfish, callous, sarcastic and affectionate. Even when Angie's actions are reprehensible. Davis infuses her character with so much spirit that she remains engaging. Without this light-handed performance, Angie's internal turmoil as impending motherhood forces her to confront her own demons would never have worked...