Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housewives with firebrand oratory, when the main task is to build coalitions on bread-and-butter issues: more jobs for women, day care, legal protection and help with marriage and divorce problems. Says Friedan: "A lot of women dropped out because NOW was no longer speaking for them. The sexual preoccupations and radical rhetoric seemed to take over." Like many other feminists, she believes that a housewives' revolt against narrow, strident feminism produced the recent stunning defeats of state equal rights amendments in New York and New Jersey (TIME...
...amusing, but the depth of their need for McMurphy is not even suggested. Finally, there is the problem of Big Nurse, the chief authority symbol in McMurphy's little world and his main antagonist. In the book, a good deal of the tension between them is oddly sexual. In the film, Big Nurse (Louise Fletcher) is merely a prim, quite sexless nag and a symbol only of niggling institutionalism. So nothing of any dramatic power gets going between her and McMurphy...
...unconverted over the rough parts. Assignations are revealed, suicides initiated and plots thickened. One resident spills out a tale of hot romance with his sister. His parents did not approve and shipped him off to the hostel for safekeeping. Jackson finds religious relief- and, one supposes, some measure of sexual satisfaction - by strapping a belt of thorns around her waist very tightly. The collaborationist priest craves extra desserts at mealtimes...
...husband in her life is obvious; from marriage to divorce--six years--her job and all else are second in importance to her marital (and extra-marital) affairs. The progress of her growing self-awareness is easily traceable in her subject matter, as she leaves behind her sexual absorbtion...
Braudy's honesty ensnares the reader's confidence, and her unadorned description of her sexual affairs and emotional contortions accomplishes her goal--the reader trusts her. In her role as journalist, Braudy feels she can enter someone's life only through trust. And in successfully winning the reader's confidence, she makes her argument that nobody is alone in this world seem convincing...