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What better symbol of exploited womanhood than the pulchritudinous office worker of jest and lore? Lustful male chauvinist bosses chase her around desks, jealous wives plot her undoing, and her alleged lack of brains is a national joke. But at least, says Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry, she has a job-which is more than can be said for her less well-endowed sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Equality for Uglies | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Achieving any of these goals will not be easy. They will, in fact, be impossible to attain unless American women, both in and out of politics, demand a lot more of themselves and their daughters. In her classic treatise on womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir accused "the second sex" of exhausting its courage in dissipating mirages and stopping at the threshold of reality. She may be right. If they really want to liberate themselves and to create the kind of world they talk about, women must start thinking less about consciousness-raising and more about stepping across that threshold. ∎Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: WOMEN'S LIB: BEYOND SEXUAL POLITICS | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...Thank you for your tasteful, kind coverage of our President's daughter's wedding [June 14]. Dignified womanhood and the American family received a needed boost through your beautiful color photographs of loving, happy, handsome kin and through your respectful text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 5, 1971 | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...times since she was first created in 1848. Says Asian: "All the Mariannes invariably have a Greek profile. It's ridiculous to have a Greek god dess representing the French Republic. Automatically, the image of Brigitte Bardot imposed itself on my spirit. To me she represents femininity and womanhood. She's truly a symbol of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Fetching New Symbol of France | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...detractors. The San Francisco Chronicle's Count Marco called the strike "a day of infamy and shame" and urged his supporters to wear black armbands "mourning the death of femininity." Boston marchers filed past counterdemonstrators carrying signs saying "Hardhats for Soft Broads." In Los Angeles, H.O.W. (Happiness of Womanhood) members paraded posters proclaiming "Communists Have Done It Again" and "Women's Lib Is a Society of Man-Eaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Women on the March | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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