Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams explained that each of her songs "tunnels through the experience of being a woman." The poetry resonates in me: "I am the brainchild, I am the mortar, with a plastic trophy and an eating disorder and a vision as big as a great big wall, and they tell me that I'll move forward for the good of us all." This illustrates the dilemma women face, as we are expected to be the mortar which holds society and family together, but also encouraged to move forward, though unable to see past the aesthetic images which also colonize our minds...
...often been accused of having narrow-minded (narrow-mouthed?) taste in music, because I immerse myself in the folk songs of females who are stereotypically angry, depressed and gay. But as a woman, or a girl, or something unidentifiably in between, I find myself, my point, in the cadences of feminism. And the points in all of the songs I love stand together at attention to form lines, and these lines come together eventually to produce my dimensions...
...celebration. Like any female folkie, Williams strums with her hands and sings with her voice, but shouts with her heart. The result is an avalanche of feeling and experience and pointfulness whose depth reflects perfectly the spirit of MIT's program, women's studies programs in general, and every woman's particular search for a point...
...little girl, a sexless kid, I never considered that my gender would factor into my life except in clothing decisions and prom dates. I see now how every decision I make is affected by my being a woman, how it affects my place at this school, on this planet, and in my mind. Williams sings a song entitled "When I Was a Boy," which focuses on the jolting change from androgynous youth to adolescent and adult society, where gender determines rules for behavior and lifestyle...
...while any fan of "lesbian music" knows how hard it is to be a woman, it doesn't seem as though enough others understand. Most non-feminists argue that its paradoxical for feminists to preach equality and diversity while celebrating women's studies and women's rights. After all, there are no men's studies or men's rights movements that have made a splash in the same way. My only response is that that's a shame. No female singer I have encountered, from Janis Ian to Joni Mitchell to Ani DiFranco, has ever said that being...