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8:00 a.m. My blood pressure measures unexpectedly low, 112/74, a long way from 140/90, where hypertension, the condition most responsible for the strokes that kill more than 160,000 Americans every year, begins. And my resting heart rate, 60 beats per min., has not changed since college days. I...
9:30 a.m. Happy in the continued evidence of my good health, I am off to my sigmoidoscopy. I don't like what I see in the examination room: a black, jointed, snakelike creature with two little eyes and a mouth that squirts jets of air and water. This thing...
10:00 a.m. I toot my way over to audiology for a hearing test, a waste of my time, I expect, because I am certain my hearing is excellent. In the soundproof booth where different tones are squeaked through earphones, I dutifully push the button at each to affirm for...
THE SECOND SEX (1949) Originally published in France, Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical treatise on the condition of women in modern life contended, among other things, that gender is largely a social and political definition and thus capable of being altered. This idea quickly became an inspiration and rallying cry...
But to hear Franklin's voice is to hear many voices: she sings not just for black women but for all women. Her pop hit Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (1985) was a duet, notably, with a white singer, Annie Lennox. Franklin sings not just about the female condition...