Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wittig said women should adopt a "lesbian consciousness" that rejects the "mythical concept of woman." She said that the concept of "womanhood" subjugates women to men, adding that to free themselves, women must "destroy all categories...
...satire of cherished beliefs. The Pythons' assault on religion is as intense as their at tack on romantic chivalry in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). They are funny lads, but detest all formal systems of belief, all institutions: the political left and right, popular culture, motherhood, womanhood, homosexuality, conformity and nonconformity...
...much consideration. Questions raised in the Roches' music are decidedly personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says he'll come after me/ another one'll drop...
...first step has been to demythologize the images of Black Macho manhood and super-womanhood. Black Macho starts with the identification of the black male as a helpless cripple, who stands idly by while his woman totes laundry and cleans kitchens to feed his children; she gets raped or seduced by the white man, and generally perverts the normal family structure to encourage her dominance. Gradually his rage grows, he longs to assert his control over himself, his woman and his race; finally, he explodes. But when he does it is in terms of spontaneous and largely ineffect ive outbursts...
Conservative mullahs, in their quest for a return to the old traditions, want this trend reversed. They accuse the Shah of degrading Islamic womanhood by exposing females to Western ways and destroying the former practice of sex segregation. But any return to the strict Islamic codes would affect the status of Iranian women and doubtless bar them from a number of jobs that they now hold...