Word: sisterhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jargon spawned by the liberationists has already moved into the vernacular. Expressions such as "male chauvinist pig (MCP)," "bra burner," "consciousness raising," "sex role," "role model," "sexist" and "sexism," "sister," "sisterhood" and "machismo" are now in common use, even among precocious preteen-agers. No cocktail party can be considered top drawer without at least one reference to the "myth of the vaginal orgasm" or to some "phallustine" (an MCP philistine). But some women want more. The language, they say, reflects centuries of male dominance, and is loaded with male chauvinist piggisms that must be thoroughly rooted...
...SISTERHOOD used to mean sororities, their secrets and women who were the chosen elite. Yet times gradually change and, thank God, so does social consciousness; sisterhood is expanding to embrace over half of mankind. A new magazine for women, "Ms.", has just made its debut. These days the fact that it is written, published and edited by women, and headed by no less of a cult heroine than Gloria Steinem, imbues the whole thing with a bit of chic. Men as well as women have been paying $1.50 for the privilege of glancing through the shiny red spring preview issue...
When I was quite young, sisterhood meant living with three other girls who were magically joined to me because we somehow had the same parents. Our alliance grew deeper as we grew; when sharing tiny bedrooms we discovered that you either cooperate or you find yourself tied to the bed on Saturday mornings, and, well, bringing up parents requires concerted hard work. My sisters and I soon learned, however, that female solidarity was not common outside the home. By high school girls had few reasons to work together; in fact, cooperation was actively discouraged. When a group of girls fought...
Granted, Reuben is not a karate expert. But even his science is distorted to bolster his image as an honorary member of the Sisterhood. "Every human embryo starts out as female," Reuben asserts. It is the same nonsense fobbed off by Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, page 30), who claimed as her source not a geneticist but a woman psychoanalyst. The fallacious reasoning behind the claim is that since human fetuses start out without male genitalia. they are physically female. The fact is that sex is determined at the moment of fertilization by the combination of chromosomes contained in the sperm...
...result is a humiliating dependence. "You have to ask the matrons for 50? for transportation if you want to go out to look for a job," said Dusek. "You even have to ask for toilet paper." But she also found that a warming "kind of sisterhood" existed among the other boarders. "A woman with six kids gave me some clothes. Others told me how to get welfare if I were pregnant. They are not at all the stereotype of the welfare mother. They are good mothers...