Word: showings
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...artist Jenny Holzer, who this year became the first woman to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Still, the force of feminism has helped improve the odds that a female artist's work will be exhibited and taken seriously. This year's most visible example was "The Decade Show," a three-museum summer exhibition in New York City that featured a multiracial roster of artists, including many women...
...West, women like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland have had to struggle against the traditional demands of gender in order to impress their visions on national policies. For decades the Communist states of Europe boasted of political egalitarianism, making a show of filling token government posts with women. But revolution has torn down the facades, revealing just how cosmetic was the "power" shared by the East's women. Now the emergence of a new order is challenging women to show themselves both willing and able to take on real responsibilities...
...practicalities. The two have disagreed strongly about how to deal with Moscow, and many emotional Lithuanians share with Landsbergis his dismay at her conciliatory moves. Prunskiene dismisses the criticism as irrelevant: "As a leader I do not have to follow what I believe is the wrong way just to show unity...
...Pohl, "was like a person who can't swim jumping into a river." But she clearly felt comfortable with her position several months later, despite criticism that she is disorganized and dwells unnecessarily on details. When she meets a reporter, she is all careful calculation. "We have got to show that women have competence in politics," she says. She will be a member of the united Bundestag until national elections are held in December. Upon unification she was named a Minister Without Portfolio...
Times, happily, change. Today the interior lives of women are being intensely scrutinized by a band of educators and ethicists, linguists and psychologists. Far from being deficient, their studies show, women are as fully developed psychologically as men, and their ethical judgments are equally valid. The reality is that women experience life differently from men; consequently, they think differently. In the words of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, a central figure in this dynamic research movement, they have "a different voice...