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...order to accommodate her family above all else. Furthermore, even in the U.S., many families cannot subsist on one income. While the progressive agenda of America’s Second Wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s boldly paved the way for the possibility of such “superwomen,” today, we fail to recognize the full continuum of choices and options that are open to young females. Particularly at Harvard, where we have the freedom to dream, to engage ourselves with almost anything we choose, all the while protected from many of the harsh realities...
...them. But the triggers for their problem have a distinctly midlife flavor--divorce, an empty nest or the death of a spouse, parent or child. About half those affected are women who struggled with food-related issues in their youth. "This generation of women was brought up to be superwomen, and whether it's the supermom or the woman with the incredible job, both are expected to be beautiful," says Kearney-Cooke, a co-author of Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Yourself After Age 40 (Atria Books; 268 pages). Societal pressure to remain thin well into...
...time when we put overwhelming demands on ourselves and others to be superstars, superheroes and superwomen, Keillor reminds us that most people are just plain folks. Jean-Paul Pegeron Ann Arbor, Mich...
Pearson, a star columnist at the London Evening Standard, makes Kate one of those superwomen who think they would like a wife. But when Kate's husband Rich, a low-energy architect, picks up the household slack, she loses interest in him. She is hard-wired to want a hunter-gatherer and nearly has an affair with one, an alpha millionaire client. But she cheats on her boss instead, stealing "Illicit Mummy Time," which requires "the same lies to get away for the tryst, the same burst of fulfillment and, of course, the guilt...
...conference, entitled Jewish Superwomen: Living in Two Realms, brought together secular and religious perspectives to examine the two aspects of a Jewish woman's life--feminist career ambitions and traditional religious values--through a series of panels and workshops...