Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldman said that Judaism places paramount inportance in the desires and preferences of the woman, making it the husband's obligation to satisfy them. "The Bible even supplies a graduated scale for quality and frequency according to occupation, health, and age," he said...
Adele Smith Simmons '36, dean of student affairs at Princeton University, has been named the first woman president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts...
Simmons, the first woman dean at Princeton, is a member of the Board of Overseers at Harvard...
...woman is enough to make readers think that sex really is dirty. She describes remarkably unpleasant oral activities with her female lover; if a man had written that, feminists would have beaten him unconscious with a copy of The Hite Report. The heroine is forever masturbating. Sex is often joyless or, when it is good, it sounds like 42nd Street: "Hot . . . hard . . . dripping . . . throbbing." At one point, Isadora complains: "While the whole world is f- away behind closed doors, all I do is write, write, write." Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Ms. Jong...
...what she had been making four years before. For non-college-educated women, Bea's predicament is not uncommon. According to Louise Kapp Howe, the odds are overwhelming that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk. The vast majority of women, she writes, are in "pink collar" occupations: beautician, office worker, sales clerk, waitress. Among the problems contributing to their generally low wages: too many applicants...