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True, the ostensible reasons for the invasion were mostly phony: there was no danger to the canal; the White House itself had originally laughed off Noriega's "declaration of war"; Bush's flowery defense of American womanhood, based on a single murky episode of rude remarks, belongs in an operetta. True, Noriega's thuggery and drug connections didn't much bother anyone in the White House until Michael Dukakis (remember him?) decided to make an issue of them in 1988. True, the invasion will have no impact on the drug war anyway. True, there were less bloody ways to remove...
...matter how women minimize the impact of gender on their leadership, womanhood is a definitive factor on the job. As pathfinders, the appointees inevitably become role models. When Zeckhauser speaks before groups of employees, "what people resonate most to is what it's like to be a woman in this job, the fact that it is doable. I face a lot of the same problems other women do in jobs around the university as working women...
...romance I mean romance in the archaic sense, in that it is a wisdom tale," she said, describing Temple of My Familiar, her latest work. Dressed in a purple knit sweater and matching headband, Walker spoke of its themes of womanhood and spirituality...
Moreover, Willis argues, WAP's tactics confirm traditional and puritanical notions of womanhood that are in themselves degrading and disempowering to women...
...anthem-hymn ("Who's the leader of the club/ That's made for you and me?/ M-I-C! K-E-Y!/ M-O-U-S-E!"). Disney had invented yet another addictive rite of passage, especially for all those preteen boys who avidly monitored the progress of young womanhood stirring under the Mouseketeer sweater marked ANNETTE...