Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...routine about a biker chick at the Red-Neckorama, or to perform a mock-heroic ballet to the theme of the NBC Nightly News. But versatility has not brought happiness: "PEOPLE magazine accuses me of being too hip and arty." On the other hand, recalling her 1987 special on cable TV, she says, "The Village Voice condemns me for selling out to Cinemax, as if Cinemax were run by Jesse Helms...
...generation from now, if all the dreams of reformers have come true, a special issue devoted to women will seem about as appropriate as a special issue on tall people. This is not to say that by then men and women will have become indistinguishable, their quirks and cares and concerns interchangeable. Rather, the struggles of the last decades of the 20th century will have brought about the freedom and flexibility that have always been the goals of social reform. Issues like equal pay, child care, abortion, rape and domestic violence will no longer be cast as "women's issues...
...Studies Center says, "I think they are more savvy than we were, about sexism, about discrimination, about balancing work and family, about sex." They may be wiser, too, about seizing fresh opportunities without losing sight of tradition. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin once wrote of a woman's dream: "The special heritage of values and priorities that have been traditionally associated with women as wives and mothers can be seen as sources of strength to create an enlarged vision of society." A society so enlarged and strengthened will make more room for everyone's dreams...
Once women are locked up, however, they swiftly find they are no longer equal. Until recently, there were so few women in prison that little attention was paid to their special needs. Even now, prison authorities argue that the number of females is so small, relative to males, that there are no "economies of scale" in designing special programs for them. Female prisoners are thus confined in a system primarily designed, built...
...Island, for example, maintains a nursery for babies born to prisoners, allowing the babies to stay with their mothers for up to a year. Hardwick and other institutions have parenting and outreach programs for inmates' children. Federal legislation enacted last year makes pregnant prisoners and their newborns eligible for special food supplements. And more prisons are expanding drug- and alcohol-treatment programs...