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President Clinton did so when he said "Am I proud that I got a chance to appoint the first woman Secretary of State?--You bet I am." But, as soon as he acknowledges that her womanhood is a part of her, he must explain that his decision is not an affirmative action project designed to attract more women voters. "But that is not why I appointed her," he added. No, it is not why she has become Secretary of State. She was chosen because, as Clinton explained, she "has the instincts, the intelligence, the skill and the strength to lead...
...bombing charge while she was pregnant with him, although she was later acquitted. His father was shot and killed when Tupac was a child. Their son, meanwhile, wrote sensitive poetry while attending the High School of Performing Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur never entirely ceased extolling black womanhood or elders. Increasingly, however, such lyrics were shouldered aside by the bitches and cop-killing bullets of gangstaism. The dominant persona, says rap reporter Larry Hester, was "a villain, a joker...
Afew weeks later, Chelsea's bright, beaming face would be broadcast on a jumbotron at the Democratic convention, and a new era of press coverage for Chelsea would begin. Stories of how she had "finally blos-somed into womanhood" and "come out of her well-protected shell" would mark the beginning of an image makeover for the First Daughter, and her reentry into public life. Even Hillary would tantalize the press with the statement that "Chelsea is dating...
Just one of the problems he will probably face is raised by Yale's British historian Linda Colley: "Whom will he find to marry him?" She notes that over the past hundred years, the monarchy has recruited women like Queen Mary, George V's consort, who epitomized royal womanhood's acquiescence and sense of duty, and the present Queen Mother, who has been just as responsible and effervescent as well. Diana was very young and inexperienced, sexually and otherwise. Where, Colley asks, are such young women to be found in this age of independence, blossoming careers and cohabitation...
Could it be that womanhood has simply gone out of fashion? Listen to a supermodel speak and you will hear her referring to her Chanel-outfitted colleagues as "girls." See twentysomethings like Winona Ryder, Juliette Lewis or Uma Thurman in movies and interviews and you realize that young actresses do not seem to be all that interested in growing up and getting out of their baseball sneakers. In the '90s, ingenuedom has become interminable: Lauren Bacall was a woman at 19; Sandra Bullock and Sarah Jessica Parker are girls at 31. But then many young actresses today work harder...