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Word: womanhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...male transvestite possibly lead a relatively happy life as a "woman"? Absolutely not, say most U.S. psychiatrists. The castration many of them crave may give them the temporary illusion of womanhood, but it can be nothing more than an illusion, and when it disappears, the disappointment and frustration are likely to make their last state worse than their first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Christine | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...average . . . American college girls who want to go through life with the belief that sex is a beautiful thing. Marilyn Monroe has done more to lower the standards of womanhood in the eyes of both men & women than any one person in history. JANET EGELSTON REBECCA CHURCH EDITH LYDAY Mars Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Womanhood dehydrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RADCLIFFE GIRL | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

Cinemactor Cary Grant confessed to a woman reporter in Manhattan: "At one time I had very little regard for womanhood. As a matter of fact, it's only recently that I have been able to accept women as friends. I had an enlightening, let's say. I suddenly discovered that women are born with great wisdom and serenity ... Now I can appreciate why my exes divorced me. I was horrible, loathsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...simplest interpretation of the illustrations reproduced on the next two pages hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: VESSELS OF IMMORTAL LIFE | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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