Sentences with phrase «class women of the time»

Her character is a composite of working class women of the time, and we come to appreciate her strength and the incredible sacrifices she makes for the greater cause.

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The initiative, called Time's Up, was announced Monday with an open letter signed by hundreds of women who all pledged to support working - class women.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

«But what we are here today to assert is that in the case of women in England at the present time, there is no reason for any exceptional treatment which does not also exist for the corresponding class of men.

That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, whether to use grape juiceor wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.

This is very likely since the New Testament was written in a time when upper - class members of Greek culture considered a homosexual love to be a «higher» love than that of a man for a woman.

A woman in a class on prayer, when asked to remember her first spiritual experience, told the instructor that she could not remember anything about a time of prayer, but what was flooding her mind and heart was a school girl's memory.

(Studies by Bernice Neugarten of the University of Chicago show that both middle - class men and women tend to see middle age as a time of rewards and prime activity, whereas working - class men and women tend to see these as years of decline.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle - class women in civic life.

The essay begins by challenging a standard historical narrative according to which industrialization forced middle - class women into the role of full - time housewives, a prison from which they were freed only by the glorious revolution of the 1960s.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

Sara Butler is a world - class theologian who helped the Anglicans get women's ordination and thought it would be a matter of time before the Roman Catholics would ordain women as well.

There was in the years from perhaps the seventh century B.C. the beginning of reflection by non-Brahmins and in particular by men and women of the Kshatriya or warrior - ruler caste concerning the great questions of God, the world, and man's origin and final destiny, and Gautama himself was, according to tradition, of that class, and was not out of character in seeking the way out of the round of rebirth, which by his time had become a matter of common belief.

A Salinas local, Jill is a graduate of Leadership Salinas Valley Class 42 and has spent time volunteering for a variety of organizations including Women's Education and Leadership Hartnell College and the California Rodeo Salinas.

The Scoop: Caitlin is a woman of many talents — she's on our team of program coaches for the culinary nutrition expert program, she's a yoga instructor, she conducts amazing cooking classes and wellness retreats, has appeared on television numerous times, and creates the most amazing recipes.

Following competing in different boat classes at Henley Women's Regatta, the crew entered into a full - time training program under the guidance of Chris O'Hara, with valued support from Sarah Graham (nutritionist), Felipe (physiologist) and Pollyanna (masseur).

Her comment of Camille as a «tough woman» could not have come at a more interesting time, as I had just stumbled upon a study, «Black Marriage Through the Prism of Gender Race, and Class,» by Kecia R. Johnson, an assistant professor at Florida State University, and Karyn Loscocco, a sociologist at the University of Albany.

The use of disposable diapers is growing, especially among working class women who regard these products less involving in terms of labour, and less time - consuming.

Few have achieved such remarkable success in as many different fields as Davis has: she is not only an Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor, but a world - class athlete (at one time the nation's 13th - ranked archer), a member of the genius society Mensa, and is becoming recognized for her tireless advocacy of women and girls nearly as much as for her acting accomplishments.

While being a solo parent is challenging, this group of women is not the downtrodden cliché portrayed in the July 14th NYT article, «Two classes divided by «I do;» The reporter blasted single moms as an errant demographic, haggard and tired with no time.

Many women think that they don't have time to take a childbirth class like the Bradley Method of Childbirth classes that we like best.

You can cover your employment gap, take classes that can help any woman get ahead in the working world, earn one of these licenses or certificates that can enhance your resume or accept one of the best part - time jobs for stay - at - home moms.

All of the classes now make up the FIT4MOM brand, which has been featured numerous times on NBC's Today Show, CNN, The Montel Williams Show, Access Hollywood and profiled in magazines such as Entrepreneur, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Self and more.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

The class was based around numerous journals, letters, medical records and while it is true many MANY women died from childbirth, the majority of the time it was from unclean doctors.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

In the film the wife of Pompeii's mayor takes part in business negotiations; Yeomans says that aside from «very exceptional circumstances» upper - class women at that time «were very sheltered» and would not have participated in politics or business deals.

At the end of this, the average decrease in stress and emotional eating in those who attended classes was almost three times that of the women who had done no yoga at all.

At the time, I was like any 23 - year - old working woman in New York City: trying to balance my love of $ 34 yoga classes and Sunday brunch with the realities of paying rent.

Thanks to the «sport's» move into the mainstream, the original Miss Pole Dance Australia now splits her time between judging world - class pole dance events, performing and teaching her art to women seeking access to their sexy side (with the fringe benefit of creating a killer body you'd be devastated to hide under clothes).

I work out five times a week, take classes at SoulCycle, lift weights at the gym, and even foam roll when I'm feeling particularly motivated, but as all women know, cellulite is just a part of the game.

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I see this all the time in my women's keto class, The Fat Burning Female Project, and in the questions I receive from listeners of my podcast, the Keto For Women women's keto class, The Fat Burning Female Project, and in the questions I receive from listeners of my podcast, the Keto For Women Women Show.

The biggest problem was that about one - third of the women in the exercise group had to give up the classes at some point in the study because of time constraints, child - care conflicts and other issues that made it difficult to attend the class.

«In theory, there are no poses you must know before a class — you're going there to learn,» says Mandy Ingber, New York Times best - selling author of Yogalosophy: 28 - days to the Ultimate Mind - Body Makeover, not to mention the woman responsible for Jennifer Aniston's yoga addiction (and rock - hard abs).

Machines also mass - produced theses delicate fabrics for the first time, which gave women of every social class access to them, making death by fire a widespread phenomenon.

I'm 6 «3 185 pound athletic broths with class and brains I attends Culinary Arts School and I love to show a woman a great time IM an explorer of the world I been to 25 States.

If you have a TON of free time to spend at cougar bars, yoga classes, or grocery stores approaching every attractive older woman without a wedding ring than online dating might not be for you.

The apocalyptic, end - of - the - millennium rage of Thewlis's Johnny — an articulate, grungy working - class lout on the dole who abuses women and spews negativity — registers at times as Leigh's commentary on the bleak harvest of Thatcherism.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

Dr. Lauzen directs research at the Center and teaches classes including The Women of Prime Time: From «That Girl» to «Saving Grace» and Film Directors: When Women Call the Shots in the School of Theatre, Television and Film.

Dubbed Time's Up, the movement was announced on Monday with an impassioned pledge of support to working - class women in an open letter signed by hundreds of women in show business, many of them A-listers.

The films explore an array of timely and time - tested themes, from infidelity to grief to loneliness to the proverbial Ugly American to racism to immigration to why Muslim women wear headscarves to public displays of affection to class to love and relationships, of course.

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Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

She lived during a time when upper - class women were appreciated primarily as wives and mothers, when little more was expected of them than to marry and procreate; as the film plays out, though, her daughter leaves for college, and for a life of her own.

Reflecting on the film's release as the Me Too and Time's Up movements dominate debate in Hollywood and the wider world, she said: «It's a strange thing, the themes this film touch on, the themes that we wanted to focus on and discuss and let an audience discuss during the process of seeing the film have to do with class - ism and abuse towards women and if they are believed when they come forward.