Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Richards was always more interesting and complicated than any subliminal politics of sex. With her independence came a rather sweet vulnerability. Mary could not bring herself to call Lou Grant by his first name; a daughterly side of her character would not permit it. Her sexual attraction had a fascinating ambiguity. Her allure never threatened anyone. Women watchers of the show thought of her roughly as a Great Gal. Men, who usually found her immensely sexy, also felt somehow protective about her. Several years ago, when Mary Richards spent the night with a date, men all over the country...
...book if I'd heard all those silly sexual parts first," says Kathy O'Connell, 30, wife of an accountant in Wauconda, Ill. "But after the seminar I no longer felt obligated to apologize for being a wife and mother. One night when my husband came home from work, I decided to do what my instructor suggested. Instead of unloading all my troubles on him before dinner, I shuffled him into the bedroom, brought him the mail and turned some quiet music on the tape recorder. After 15 minutes he was relaxed and happy and began to talk...
...social responsibility" but merely as an adjunct to the good life. This change, which Benjamin DeMott sums up as scrapping " 'in sickness and in health' in favor of 'I do my thing and you do your thing,' " is not so much the result of sexual permissiveness and easier divorce laws as, like them, an offshoot of what Weiss describes as the "intensity of our impatience with barriers to self-realization." Weiss adds...
...writing about sexual love, Warren seems to take great pleasure in letting down his literary credentials. He can be romantically Wagnerian or barn yard raunchy. Orchestrating Jed and Rozelle's love affair, he is wise enough to know that passion thrives on obstacles-the more, the greater the passion. Beyond the obvious legal and social hurdles, there is Jed and Rozelle's shared yearning to accept what they are in terms of their Dugton past. In this sense, they ransack each other's bodies for the answer...
Third World women are confronted not only with the sexual stereotypes which afflict all women at Harvard but with the racism that pervades the institution, overtly expressed by racists like Richard J. Hernnstein and Bernard D. Davis, and covertly by the Harvard Administration through its efforts to undermine the Afro-American Studies Department. This last example is of particular importance to the question of Women's Studies. The Afro-American Studies Department was established in 1969 in response to demands made by black students for a curriculum relevant to their lives, fulfilling their desire to understand the particularities of national...