Word: womanhood
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...frolicsome title is misleading. Though the setting is a picturesque, upscale New England country house, Fefu’s get together with seven women to discuss a presentation supporting primary school education for the disadvantaged turns into a complex forum in which the women speculate about the meaning of womanhood...
...them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family. "Never, ever would I do this to my daughters," she says. "It strips a woman of her very womanhood...
...upon Nick, a man Murphy claims previously raped her friend. Styron’s relatively friendless life in her quest to become CEO is a motif that has been used before, but is artfully drawn out in this movie. These two issues juxtaposed together provide influential insight into modern womanhood. However, this significance is muddled under lesbian innuendo that takes the viewer’s mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn to focus his message as well as he focuses his action, and continues...
...years that lay between us served more as a bridge than a gulf. Becoming a mother had soothed her and given her new perspective; much of the conversation lingered on ideas of aging and womanhood...
...protagonist, Candy Christian, is one of his finest creations: an update of Voltaire's Candide, this middle-American college girl offers "charity" to every man she meets. Though written in the third person, the leering narration synchs up with the mock-erotic dialogue spoken by the characters: Candy's womanhood is described with phrases like "honey-pot," "jelly box," and "sweetening damp"; her breasts are "pert and inquisitive," and she beseeches a homeless hunchback, to whom she is being charitable, "Hurt me as they have hurt you ... Give me your hump...