Word: personhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women will not achieve our own personhood until we have the right to have an abortion without fear, stigma or discrimination," Ehrenreich said...
...Catholic tradition has always held that thequestion of personhood is spiritual, notscientific," according to the brief...
...last twenty years, however, Intimacy and Sexuality studies have taken a huge leap forward. Even here at Harvard, which is notoriously slow to adopt new and progressive course materials, changes can be seen in the way people are dealing with their own personhood. Instead of frittering away their time with chess clubs as they may have in the 1950s, Harvard students of today are far more likely to spend their time in a sexuality discussion group, grappling with issues such as whether they prefer boys, girls, neither, or both...
...analysis of power relations between men and women, between mother and child--as they are sedimented in grammars of address--and of the rhetorical assumptions of personhood contained within poems and Constitutional amendments offers no answer to the ongoing abortion dilemma among feminists. Rather, Johnson warns how the complex issues too easily become locked into the rhetorical limits of dead-end polemics. Her refusal to intervene between pro-life and pro-choice factions, and wish upon them "a single voice," offers intellectual self-questioning as an alternative to political violence...
...this with no small awareness of those whose efforts to live faithful to God's word and to their human personhood face enormous hardship: not only homosexual people but the many single, married and divorced men and women whose circumstances or conditions in life make it difficult if not impossible to experience the full sexual expression of human love. It is in these, as in other ways that we confront our incompleteness or woundedness as persons, that we turn to God and our community for another kind of love that we believe is more than, but never less than fully...