Word: womanhood
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...reviewing Naomi Wolf's latest treatise, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (Random House; 286 pages; $24), a number of critics have complained that the feminist author writes as a pop-culture illiterate. This is not entirely so, for surely no one else has ever found so much significance in the work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor...
...over the color line. At 28, with World War II service in the Army behind him, Robinson was mature and tough enough to withstand the taunts of racist fans and opposing players. He was married, to the beautiful Rachel Robinson, and hence no threat to the sanctity of white womanhood. And he was, literally, an All-American--in football at UCLA. Moreover, Robinson understood everything that was riding on the experiment. He left his natural combativeness in the locker room and endured incredible abuse without fighting back. He let his batting and base running speak for him--and they spoke...
President Clinton did so when he said "Am I proud that I got a chance to appoint the first woman Secretary of State?--You bet I am." But, as soon as he acknowledges that her womanhood is a part of her, he must explain that his decision is not an affirmative action project designed to attract more women voters. "But that is not why I appointed her," he added. No, it is not why she has become Secretary of State. She was chosen because, as Clinton explained, she "has the instincts, the intelligence, the skill and the strength to lead...
While we cannot identify her womanhood as the reason behind her appointment, we must also not overlook it. Madeleine Albright has done some significant work for the sake of women. She was the director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. There, she urged women to take a more active role in foreign policy. She was a foreign policy advisor to Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and was an encouraging force in the latter's campaign for the vice-presidential nomination...
...them were playing with a foreign policy ball. Madeleine Albright has demonstrated and will hopefully further demonstrate that even in foreign affairs, with all its geopolitics, missiles, terrorism and embargoes, a woman's voice can be heard and her touch felt. And yes, she will be bringing her womanhood with her--for as she said as she bid farewell to past Secretary of State Warren Christopher, "I can only hope that my heels can fill your shoes...