Kapitel III
Leitbild: berufstätige Mutter
DDR-Frauen in Familie, Partnerschaft und Ehe
I. Familienpolitik und Frauenwirklichkeit
The political nature of woman's condition has only rarely been recognized and never fully understood. Woman has lived, almost always, as the subordinate member of the species, defined as biologically and physically limited—to be given, at best, a place of protection or of benign neglect.
»The Fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual caycles or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education«
This is was »Woman in Sexist Society« is about. It is a collective attack on the anti-female culture created by a patriarchal society that stratifies people by sex, class an race, and defines woman »not by the struggling development of her brain or her will or spirit, but rather by her child-bearing properties an her status as companion to men who make, and do, and rule the earth......
Studien zur Geschichte und Politik
In 1987 and 1988, Diana Russell journeyed from America to the land of her birth to learn about the special role of women in the ongoing struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The fruit of her research is this extraordinary book: the firsthand accounts, in their own words, of twenty-four women activists. These are not only world-famous leaders but ordinary wives and mothers who are trade unionists, members of radical organizations, student activists - black and white, Indian and Coloured, young and old.
Trains stopped running through Osgood, Missouri, years ago, and the United States Post Office no longer serves it. The handful of old-timers who remain are mostly widows, in their well-kept wood-frame houses where they've lived for decades. From their old Midwest-style porches, complete with rockers, hanging swings, or wicker chairs for »sitten a spell,« they look out over deserted streets.[1] Across the railroad tracks on the east edge of town and down the country road about two miles is Campground, where the first white settlers arrived in the 1830s.
Women are the beautiful sex. Who doubts it? Among birds the male may have the pretty plumage, but among human beings it is the female who wears the peacock feathers.
A young man begs his mother for her
heart, which a betrothed of his has
demanded as a gift; having torn it
out of his mother's proffered breast he
races away with it; and as he stumbles,
the heart falls to the ground, and he
hears it question protectively,