Word: woman
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...stiff competition from their more "genteel counterparts" at Wellesley. Back in '51 The Radcliffe Quarterly could quote a professor's remark without much hesitation: "The Radcliffe girl carries feminism and femininity in almost equal balance. It's enough to upset anybody." Of course the professor was male. Only one woman was tenured, holding an endowed chair established to be filled by women only...
Nevertheless, by the time the Class of '54 entered Radcliffe in 1950, there were more than 2.5 million woman college graduates, more than 500,000 of whom had received specialized professional training beyond college. For most women college graduates of the early '50's, however, career ambitions yielded to goals of getting happily married and raising children. Some expected to work, but often only while their husbands completed graduate or professional schools. The conventional vision of a suburban home with 2.4 children, two cars and a dog was a powerful one. "I always thought having children would be my carrer...
...important events to Radcliffe women in those days were the dorm "jollyups," roughly equivalent to today's mixers. The jollyups were real meeting places, for, as Dorothy Elia Howells '60, author of "A Century to Celebrate": Radcliffe College 1879-1979, reports, a Harvard man could call a Radcliffe woman and tell her he had met her at a jollyup, even if he hadn't, and be virtually assured of her going out with him. On the other hand, The Crimson in September, 1950 said, "Jollyups are famous for the 5-2-1 quota; despite the disgruntled look on the girl...
...about time a major nation has realized the potential of a woman. Congratulations, Margaret Thatcher...
...early '40s New York and Billie Holiday: "The creamy lips, the oily eyelids, the violent perfume--and in her voice the tropical l's and r's. Her presence, her singing created a large, swelling anxiety. Long red fingernails and the sound of electrified guitars. Here was a woman who had never been a Christian." So desperately important to a woman who was trying to forget that...