Word: personhood
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...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...
...woman "is emerging from the feminine mystique to full personhood," says Friedan. "Unconscious historical forces made it possible for women in large numbers to move into society as full human beings and not to be considered solely in sexual terms...
...addition, she believes the "radical fringe" has been too willing to isolate women in their relationships to men and to society, and that it has wrongly applied the concepts of race-separatism and class warfare to its own situation. Extremist rhetoric, says Friedan, denies a woman's personhood and fails to affirm her full identity...
...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...