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...this day of instant media stars and "experts," 28-year-old Michele Wallace stands, by any account, as one of the biggest and brightest. Her book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman has catapulted her to talk-show and lecture-circuit fame as the reigning authority on the plight of the Black woman, particularly her relationship with the Black man. Even the Washington Post said the "fearless presentation of her analysis quite takes the breath away. It is serious, well-written, effective in its demystification, valuable as a model of hardheaded but caring analysis, principled in its criticism...
...Perkins and Rudolph are cleared, they say the case will leave the lingering impression that female cops are not up to the job. Admits Executive Deputy Chief James Bannon: "If a woman officer went out tomorrow and saved six male officers' lives, the men would call her a superwoman, but it wouldn't change many attitudes...
Lately, every movie with a strong leading man has a Diane Keaton counterpart, a woman who stand three inches taller and carries a superwoman image. In Justice Christine Lahti is Gail Packer, a three-piece-suited lawyer who believes she's doing her part for humanity by serving on an ethics committee that investigates lawyers...
Wallace takes aim and fires in a recent book titled Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...
...pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel." In response, she says, black women became more submissive and, despite the image of some social scientists of black society as a matriarchy, no longer behaved like the mythic black superwoman...