Word: victimness
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...author whose writings dramatically influenced, and often polarized, the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington D.C. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her own experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse "a means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said...
...government ban on mass funerals for the victims of violence in the 36 districts where the emergency laws are in effect was a sharp blow to blacks, who have been barred from holding political meetings of any kind. The funerals have been drawing as many as 50,000 mourners. In the future, the government decreed, a funeral can be held only indoors and for no more than one victim. Moreover, it may be conducted only by an ordained minister, who must not refer in any way to political systems, governments, boycotts, states of emergency or any action by the police...
Even in death the AIDS victim is shunned. In St. Louis and New York, undertakers have refused to embalm the remains of patients. In Los Angeles, a funeral parlor was asked to handle the body of three-year-old Sammy Kushnick, who had died from AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion. Until a rabbi intervened, they refused to dress the boy in the clothes and prayer shawl his parents had selected for his burial...
...opposite strategy to relay the pain of an old woman in the ruins of her village. His picture of a Texas town works through addition, building a superabundance of facts; his shot of a bereft woman is a masterpiece of subtraction, paring away everything that is extraneous to one victim's grief...
...growing these rare plants, the center expects eventually to reintroduce some into their natural habitats and to satisfy the needs of both researchers and collectors. The collectors, oddly enough, have contributed to the near extinction of several species. One victim is the Knowlton cactus, the first endangered species cataloged by the center. Says Donald Falk, the center's administrative director: "Collectors will go out and decimate populations, uprooting the cactus to send it back to live on windowsills...