Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's poor, he must also study the ones who control their lives. "You really can't know about plain working people like us unless you go find out about the bigshots. It's their decisions which make us end up living our lives the way we do," one woman told Coles...
...Church pays less attention to students training for non-clerical religious careers than the students would like. Coffin switched from the MTS to the M.Div. program to open other career options besides college teaching, but still is uncertain about her future. She foresees no special problems being a woman entering the Church's male-dominated organization. "Lay men are in just as much trouble as lay women. They're getting nowhere either," she says...
...continued to do until coming to the Div School's program this year. The unique culture and lifestyle of rural West Virginia creates a special problem for Daugherty in her work, for Appalachian women do not fit easily into the mainstream of the American feminist movement. "The average rural woman doesn't even know the movement exists, and if she does it's usually greeted with suspicion and hostility," Daugherty says. She found few suitable teaching materials for her women's studies course at Morris Harvey. In Appalachia, "it's very hard even for college women to identify with materials...
...been a long day, and Darth Vader was looking for a party. He turned to the winged woman beside him, and said raspingly through his iron mask, "Let's check out the one on the tenth floor...
More important, says Hazleton, the shock of the Holocaust, followed by a generation of intermittent wars, has produced a hunger for the normality of traditional sex roles-man as protector and breadwinner, woman as mother and comforter of men. Marriage and childbearing are "national priorities" that produce social prejudices against the widow and the unmarried woman. "To be single," writes Hazleton, "is considered the greatest misfortune that can befall an Israeli woman." In primary schools, she says, youngsters absorb "a shocking degree of sex stereotyping" that takes its toll on Israeli females. One kibbutz psychologist finds that girls are consistently...