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...implicit in the theory of analysis." Psychiatric theories of personality, he observes, do not hold women inferior to men. True, many psychiatrists accept Freud's famous "anatomy is destiny" dictum, which is anathema to feminists. To professionals, though, the doctrine does not condemn women to second-class citizenship; it means only that, as Hartford Psychoanalyst Rebecca Solomon puts it, "Women have to cope psychologically with the facts of their biology. They are human beings who have the capacity to procreate whether they choose...
...retirement. One reason for his falling out with the President was his purported differences with Shultz. When Shultz asked him to give up his White House office for another in the Executive Office Building across the street, Rumsfeld replied: "I gave up a seat in Congress for a second-class job, but I'm not going to take a second-class office." He is believed to be eying Adlai Stevenson Ill's Illinois Senate seat...
...Good evening. For tonight you are back in 1520 A.D., where women are second-class citizens." With that greeting male customers are ushered into the 1520 A.D. restaurant in Anaheim, Calif., where Old English fantasy, audience participation and a big helping of unabashed male chauvinism are on the menu. Women are ordered to walk six paces behind their escorts into the paneled banquet hall, where spoons are used for banging on tables, and the diners themselves play leading roles in an outlandish floor show...
...fledged membership to which all other adult Mormon males are entitled.* In Utah, where less than 1% of the population is black, the issue does not seem so pressing. There are, however, 240 black Mormons in the area of Salt Lake City, many of whom are chafing at their second-class status. Some were converted before they learned that they could not become priests. Charges Darius Gray, 26: "I didn't hear about it until the night before I was baptized." By then, Gray was too convinced of Mormonism's truthfulness to back out, even though the restriction...
...what about that modern Holy Grail the career, which woman either sacrifices for marriage or is condemned to pursue as a second-class competitor? Miss Decter believes she knows a dirty little secret. Women don't really want work-as-necessity, work as it is for a man. "Discovering for themselves how very difficult-how fraught with stress and anxiety-is the activity of making one's way in the world of work," most women, in their hearts, cherish smaller ambitions than they may militantly pretend...