Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe student is to be a professional woman--even without that degree. Professional, because Harvard fosters situations in which you will feel as if you represent something larger than yourself: an embodiment of all womanhood. Radcliffe administrators know this feeling more intimately than we students. It defines the crucial difference between Presidents Bok and Horner: Both are full time administrators, fund-raisers, and general top dogs, but only she is a full-time advocate...
Freshman year is one long initiation rite. Its lesson, never fully learned and put aside, is that it is not easy to be a person at Harvard. But there are additional built-in features of the Harvard experience that mean that womanhood, on top of personhood, can be a complicating factor in making your peace with Harvard. Living with sexism is not an expectation that many of us bring to freshman registration. A consciousness of it tends to develop only gradually, checked ironically enough by such things as fear of failure, the love-it-or-leave-it dogma, the feeling...
...Eternal Womanhood. Why? That is part of the conundrum of the title, and it remains something of a mystery to the end. Like most transsexuals, Morris was never a homosexual or a transvestite. The book convincingly insists that the road to Casablanca was not taken in the pursuit of sexual gratification. It was simply that during the whole of a successful life as a schoolboy, soldier and father-in short, as a male-Morris was tormented by the growing realization that his gender, his inner self, his center of being, his very soul, was feminine. Everything that he eventually...
When blonde Marjorie Wallace, 20, of Indiana became the first American to win the "Miss World" title last November, she pledged to remain single for a year and agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled into the headlines: Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor...
Friedan decries the "radical feminist rhetoric" which repudiates a woman's sexuality and right to motherhood. The mother of three, Friedan regards motherhood as an inherent and fulfilling part of womanhood...