Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf Ali looked striking in silk, making it hard to believe that as a dedicated saboteur she once moved the British to put a price of 10,000 rupees on her head. "Our Congress is a manifestation of charming womanhood, motherly warmth, moral and physical beauty!" gushed La Pasionaria, quite a little off the mark...
Together. Her biography made her sound like a perfect specimen of Socialist womanhood: father a tractor driver killed in World War II, mother a factory worker. Cosmonette Valentina herself was a textile worker, night school student and Young Communist functionary until she got interested in parachuting as a hobby (she made 126 jumps) and was picked for cosmonaut training...
...plays has been enormous-from Madame Arcati, the happy medium in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, to Oscar Wilde's Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Her face and manner are unmistakably singular. She is the ultimate symbol of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, of the old gals who go stamping across the heath in the wild rain, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with their umbrellas...
Once upon a Stalinist time, Masha the Machinist was supposed to get maximum uplift just by doing her bit for the Five-Year Plan. Her unharnessed figure, unrouged cheeks and unwaved hair were the model for Soviet womanhood. Feminine adornments were considered decadent. But under Nikita Khrushchev's rule, glamour has become one of the Marxist virtues; the party line has caught up with the hemline. At a Moscow fashion show this summer, 9,000 people a day enviously ogled the sleek styles that so far only the mannequins were wearing. The counters of GUM, Moscow's government...
Although Germany had its suffragettes early in the century-and a woman in the Reichstag by 1919-emancipation on a national scale has come only since the war. The Third Reich borrowed its idea of womanhood from 19th century romanticism, when a German woman was considered "a happy, still oasis, a wellspring of life's poetry, a remnant of paradise." But cleaning up the postwar rubble of man-shy Germany was no job for a still oasis, and women took on a responsibility that has since produced a staggering social revolution...