Word: personhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more intellectual moralists, such rhetoric is hardly taken seriously. Lewis Smedes, who teaches theology and ethics at the Fuller Theological Seminary in California, is an evangelical who takes a more reasoned but nonetheless critical view of the trend of recent years. Says he: "The new morality is based on personhood and that could open the door to mass egotism. Our moral standards today are less impressed with the morality of the law or our institutions and more impressed with the value of the person. Even religious people are no longer impressed with marriage as an institution. If the union does...
...Court will consider issues of "personhood"--which include abortion, freedom of expression and freedom of information--as its primary concern in coming years, Freund added
...them at all present them as barren old maids, or Carrie Nations and Lizzie Bordens rolled into one. Now during this so-called "second wave of and re-evaluate the actions of those who dedicated their lives to a struggle against an oppressive system that deprived them of their personhood...
Freshman year is one long initiation rite. Its lesson, never fully learned and put aside, is that it is not easy to be a person at Harvard. But there are additional built-in features of the Harvard experience that mean that womanhood, on top of personhood, can be a complicating factor in making your peace with Harvard. Living with sexism is not an expectation that many of us bring to freshman registration. A consciousness of it tends to develop only gradually, checked ironically enough by such things as fear of failure, the love-it-or-leave-it dogma, the feeling...
...There is no way for women to move in full personhood when they walk as freaks in a man's world," Friedan says. "But we've opened the door. Now we want to move through...