Word: womanhood
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...prey to this dystopic vision of radical feminism, which will inevitably alienate so many of the women the center is meant to serve. A major purpose of a women’s center must be to empower moderate women, not the feminazis who already take their modern conception of womanhood to an extreme. Erring on the side of this extremism are many of the Harvard women’s groups leading the women’s center charge. Rather than allowing these already vocal groups to call the shots in the development of the center, the College should encourage mainstream...
...particularly moving quote, Levy writes, “as long as womanhood is thought of something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less...
...extreme circumstances. The absence of males allows for the effects of gender politics to be felt acutely, but more importantly, it allows for the non-traditional development of its students. The “desire to grow personally” may be fulfilled, but the transition from girlhood to womanhood might not be typical or linear for the Wellesleystudent...
...about awkward dining hall encounters with past hookups. When they leave campus, these women can pick and choose the elements of the Boston-area college social scene that most appeal to them. For the right kind of student, Wellesley can be a place where one is allowed to define womanhood on her own terms...
...volunteer secretary of her NAACP chapter, or that after refusing to give up her seat and subsequently being arrested, she made it her business to educate others around the country about civil rights, quite independently of Dr. King. Now, obviously, none of this should be surprising to anyone. Black womanhood is the epitome of the dreaded “double minority” status, so a considerable amount of historical marginalization has become par for the course. After all, women in general are brushed aside in overall American history, and apart from February, the history of black people is either...