Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to let sex sort of happen to her. Traditionally, she's not supposed to want to make sex; nor, as a wife, is the woman traditionally allowed to make money. In her domestic role she is supposed to provide sexual services, among others. Chesler and Goodman note the stigma that results when the married woman's usual duties are connected with money--both the prostitue and the maid are commonly labeled low-class creatures. In a pretty devious way, a predominant feminine image turns out not to mix with a yen for money and the power, respect and independence...
...sure that Harvard, women, and young people have not gained any stigma from all this," Tristman said...
...though there was some stigma about it, the Radcliffe graduate was saying. And yet wherever she goes these days, people give her a funny stare and say something like, "Are you still here...
...looking for a steady job, but like many who stay in Cambridge, she isn't bothered too much by meager job prospects. She's bothered by something else: the stigma, the funny stares, the unspoken notion that Harvard graduates should get out of town after Commencement, that they don't belong here...
...prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian...