Word: womanhood
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...nurturing public policies and affiliative ways of living. Empirical evidence clearly refutes this. Arguments which stress the importance of contextual relationships--the idea, for instance, that women favor a "web-like" relationship structure too often describe a dichotomized view of gender one which presents an overly altruistic idea of womanhood...
Lorde's poems on Blackness and womanhood as well as the specific references to historical events places Undersong not only within the context of Lorde's full life but within the greater context of America over the last thirty years. The book's final poem, entitled "Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices" takes the form of a dialogue between the poet and two Black women beaten to death in two American cities in the late seventies. The poet's closing words are "How much of this truth can I bear/ to see/ and still live/ unblinded?/ How much...
...said her own entry into the rap music industry stems from her desire to develop a "type of product that would redefine the role of African womanhood, families...
Female personnel tend to be more tolerant of their lesbian colleagues. "You aren't hearing it from women because women are more accepting about lesbians," says Mary Ann Humphrey, a former captain in the Army reserves who was discharged in 1987. "Their womanhood is not threatened like a man's manhood is when he's around a gay man." Perhaps women's experience with male sexual harassment has made them less skittish about other forms of torment. Or perhaps it is simply less taboo for women to hug and kiss in public...
Holiday dwelled and worked, however, on a plane of pure, primal feeling, and by that standard -- on her level -- this package contains peerless music. Like a superb actress, Holiday knew how to internalize her turmoil. She had too much pride in her womanhood, her race and her artistry to turn herself into a sorry paradigm of self-pity. Rather she could make each song she sang a personal testament -- a confession, a regret, a reverie. She did not trade on her personal devastation. She used it till the end, to drive her artistry...