Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. Extramarital sex violates no norms, it's simply an act. The novel takes Sarah Worth out of a suburban sterility as arid as any Arizona desert and into a empty series of heterosexual and homosexual love affairs. We are even provided with an actual transcription of her first sexual encounter with the Ahrat, courtesy of a miniaturized tape recorder fastened to her breast. The endless repetition of these erotic adventures strips them of any moral aspect...
...bonds of marriage are utterly devalued. Sarah's husband never writes her. Instead his lawyer sends her threatening letters, demanding that she return her half of the estate. To Sarah's mind, it's the Wife he misses and not the Woman. In a world inured to open sexual behavior, Adultery is no longer relevant, so long as the divorce agreement leaves everyone with a fair share...
Updike is always aware of the extent of his presumption. As a male who has lived through the Sexual Revolution, he has experienced the ostensible emancipation of women--from the outside. And he posits himself in a precarious narrative position precisely to explore how men perceive women in a postfeminist world...
...sexual discrimination case of former Facilities Maintenance employee Charlotte Walters against the University appeared precipitously near a resolution last month. Lawyers for both sides completed their final arguments before the Boston Federal Court jury, bringing to an end a two-week trial of the case which has so far taken seven years to litigate...
...heart of the Walters case is the definition of sexual harassment. Lawyers for the former Harvard employee have counted on a broad definition of sexual harassment--to include harassment of women because they are women, even if the behavior is not of a sexual nature. In a setback for Walters, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity disagreed with such an interpretation, and ruled that at most Walters proved discrimination, not harassment. And in his rulings, he threw out the five claims he had to consider...