Word: motherhood
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...contrast to the boys they grew up with, Rosegrant says she found that "jobs were not something the women were thinking about." The women put hopes for raising children before vocational aspirations, she says. But thoughts of a euphoric motherhood were shattered for the women, "because as soon as they became mothers they discoverd that being poor, minority, single and having a baby was not the same thing as being a middle class white women like in the Brady Bunch," Rosegrant says...
...babysitter be stopped before she does something awful? In fact, violence does occur near the end, but the real focus of the novel has long since shifted elsewhere. With considerable skill and subtlety, Gordon has constructed a series of intertwined meditations questioning the nature and even the value of motherhood...
...most Americans, I found myself riveted to the tube as she told the daughters, "You can be anything you want to be" and that being a mother was one of the choices she was most proud of. You've just got to admire a politician who comes out for motherhood, no matter who is offended by it. And I liked the way they put the product in the hands of one of the daughters. Otherwise, some people might get the idea that our best- known feminist is shilling for a soda pop, when she's actually having a high- toned...
...graduates of Harvard or any other upper-middle and top-level college, whatever their ethnicity, will become ghetto elites. This means that increasingly Black graduates of Harvard must find ways to impact positively upon the crises of unemployment (60 percent for Black youth) and societal pathologies (crime, unwed-motherhood, unwed-fatherhood, disorganized neighborhoods) from their position in national or cosmopolitan job markets--in new technology firms, research firms, law firms, multinational corporations, federal and state bureaucracies, etc. Effectiveness at this depends upon many things to be sure, but certainly one crucial factor will be Black elites' ability to influence...
Margaret Sanger defined liberation in a different way--as the struggle to have freedom from constant childbeating With a choice between abstention from sex and complete dedication to motherhood, women could never be truly free Sanger, having seen the proliberation of unwanted babies and the horrendous effects of sloppy abortions on New York's East Side, began the fight for the availability of female contraception Sanger brought the diaphragm to the United States and opened a clinic in New York an offense for which she spent 30 days in fall. Throught her efforts knowledge about birth control became widespread...