Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminist films today. They differ tremendously in vantage point, style and statement, but they have one common bond--they are films by women, for women. Hollywood's portrayal of women has always left a lot to be desired. For now, if women want to see a true image of womanhood on film, they'll have to do it alone. And if feminists want to understand themselves and others better, they'd do well to take Woman to Woman's cue and look beyond themselves...
...womanhood, and of her openly hostile attitude toward the church Heyward says, "I am a woman but that's secondary. My vocation now is to be doing what I'm doing and that includes doing battle with the Episcopal church...
...writers of the Sourcebook fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class...
...worse. One member fulminates that if God had wanted a permissive society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with the dimpled wiles...
...writer who tries for breeziness by referring, for instance, to New York City as "Gotham," to England as "Albion" and to Hollywood as "the fabled Tinseltown." He sees nothing wrong, either, with writing "his scrupulously guarded virginity, hidden for so long on that same lofty pedestal where American Womanhood dwelled, was surrendered to a semiprofessional demimondaine, a Folies-Bergère dancer named Ninette, and was continued with another." (What, exactly, was continued...