Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have just seen, defies his static notions of sex roles, his rigid mindset for masculinity and femininity. But Millett's other fist is more threatening to Mailer by far. For with her other fist, he thinks she wants to knock out all the mysteries of the womb, knock them out, scatter them into the stratosphere, and in the meantime, replace them with technology...
...cast is without exception excellent, with Anthony Kahn, Diane Couves and Gary Halcutt turning in especially fine performances. The intimacy between the actors and audience is further heightened by the black cloth which drapes the ceiling, creating a womb-like atmosphere...
...ladies but a sizable segment of the magazine's 359,000 circulation. Mailer moves in on Women's Lib with menacing metaphor, but ends in capitulation. Writing in the third person. Mailer finally admits that "he would agree with everything they asked but to quit the womb...
...there would be no free search until they were liberated. So let woman be what she would, and what she could. Give her freedom and let her burn it, or blow it, or build it to triumph or collapse. Let her conceive her children, and kill them in the womb if she thought they did not have...
...womb must remain, for Mailer sees something almost atheistic in bypassing natural biology for greenhouse-style cultivation of human life. "Who," he asks, "was there to know that God was not the greatest lover of them...