Word: womb
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...sounds of Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Its narrative framework, to the extent that there is one, is fleeting. Conner takes pains to thwart any clear interpretation, but motifs of modern warfare, performitivity, the Freudian return to the womb, and the sex and death drives all figure heavily in “A Movie.”It’s difficult, well-nigh impossible, to summarize satisfactorily the vision or intention behind any of Conner’s films. The closest one can come, it seems, is to describe...
...born of patriarchal society. A culture focused on women’s needs, they argue, would instead focus on both promoting and rewarding motherhood. This stance, however, assumes that a female’s most important societal function is anatomically determined: In essence, that she should serve as a womb and a mother before she should act as a holistic human being. By stooping to the level of biological essentialists, organizations like the FFL bolster the idea of an intangible “feminine mystique” and pervert conceptions of modern womanhood...
...time, as the Obama campaign has pointed out, Illinois state law already required doctors to provide medical treatment for all children born after abortions who demonstrated viability, which was defined under the law as a "reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support." The Born Alive legislation, therefore, would have primarily impacted a different category of babies - those born with life signs that doctors decided did not have a reasonable chance of survival...
...Ruff said. Some funding will definitely be available for child care and for time off, Ruff said, but at this point, she does not know the official level of funding to be expected. PUSH OUT, HEAD FIRST Some changes have already found their way out of the womb. The G-clock policy—which extends key graduate school deadlines by a year for new parents—is now official, Ruff said. “Now it’s clearer and much more widely known that when students have children, they deserve extension of their G-clock...
Greenberg's daughter lost her mind. Elizabeth McCracken's son never had time to find his. He died in her womb when she was nine months pregnant. There can be few grimmer topics for a book than a stillborn baby, but I'll say this for McCracken's memoir, the unwieldily titled An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (Little, Brown; 192 pages): it's the funniest book about a dead baby that you will ever read...