Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again, a film based on the liberal faith in constructive discussion. In her vast panorama of American womanhood Deitch has given a lot of very different women a chance to speak their minds--everyone, in fact, but women further to the political left than she. It would be unfair to derogate her achievement just because she has left out socialist feminism. But there's something chilling about her choice of interviewees. When a whole group of prostitutes agree, tantalizingly, that "the system must be changed," and then explain that their idea of freedom from oppression is the freedom...
...family friend Pastor Manders. But those arms are too busy embracing the constraints of nineteenth century society to make room for a tearful would-be adultress, so Manders sends Helene right back to the Captain with a firm reproach and charter membership in the Cult of True Womanhood...
...artist/She don't look back," and then go on to title the song She Belongs to Me--an arrogance there, a confidence that despite all of woman's potential for communion with nature, in the final analysis she was his to possess. Things don't seem so certain anymore; womanhood appears to be too mysterious, too grand a thing for him to have or comprehend, and he can only ask for one more cup of coffee before he retreats "to the valley below...
Women in their dependence have always exacted a price in the guerrilla war of the sexes. Philip Wylie's devouring Mom of 30 years ago or Alexander Portnoy's horrific mother or countless wives and mistresses of fancy and fact were really figures of thwarted womanhood, exacting an understandably neurotic revenge. Women's liberation, while it thrusts women into a new world of difficult choices and questions of identity, should ultimately accomplish much for the sheer sanity of both men and women. In any case, as Addie Wyatt says, "All we're asking is that we be recognized as full...
...self-confidence, and acting "is a vent for my fantasies." Last week in Manhattan, cuddling her Shih Tzu, K.K. (short for King Kong), she reminisced about her most notable fantasy to date, Lady Lyndon. Done up like a portrait by Gainsborough, Marisa seems the model of 18th century English womanhood, even to the torrents of tears Lady Lyndon sheds at her son's death. "I could do nothing else but cry, looking at that sweet boy-I am quite good at crying," says Marisa. "Once I start...