Word: womanizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the problem is cultural. Pilgrim says American society places too much emphasis on women's bodies, often measuring a woman's worth by her external appearance, her shape and slimness. Slimness is frequently equated with high worth...
...woman who, when asked why she binged and purged, tells a story about her father, who would fast on religious holidays. Her mother would get upset and ask him not to fast, but he would respond, "A little penance never hurt anyone...
Often I needed the reassurance of one anonymous woman writer who counseled her fellow Crimson editors. In response to a plaintive question--"Help me restore my faith in human-kind"--she had written, "First you have to restore faith in yourself...
...looks on women's faces were angry--a frenetic, almost panicked kind of angry. No matter where they fell on the political spectrum, no matter what positions they took in the various internal disputes which tend to divide a newspaper, each woman wore that look...
...insecurity, the symbolism of the whole thing, which seemed to drive us. As one woman wrote, "Is our position here so tenuous that we--and what we have done--can be white-washed away in one morning's work...