I'm a labor and delivery nurse and I love reading
stories about women who are intent on natural labor and stick with their guns!
But I also wonder if horror is good at
telling stories about women because horror, almost by definition, focuses on the vulnerability of its characters.
Everyone
hears stories about women who are still breast - feeding their 5 - year - olds, but that is hardly the norm, she says.
Recommended for: contemporary «women's fiction» readers, clean romance fans, those who
like stories about women's relationships with other women.
«They must find it hard to relate to
stories about women because I can find no explanation why it isn't up for Best Picture this year,» she continues.
Recent well - done, well -
reviewed stories about women (examples: «Suffragette», «Brooklyn», «Carol», «Truth») that focused on female - targeted marketing crashed at the box office.
Reitman says the discomfort in seeing women playing unpalatable roles might just come from not having seen as many
stories about women on - screen.
In the five years that she lived and worked in the area before giving birth to her daughter in October, she had heard countless
horror stories about women in labor in the back of ambulances on the way to Duluth or those who had to deliver in the emergency room at a local hospital.
The Wall Street Journal carried a front -
page story about women so driven to breast - feed that they tried until their babies were malnourished.
It's a
fascinating story about a woman caught in her society's harshly restrictive rules about women, and the script by Emma Thompson captures some strong observations, interaction and personal feelings, but the film is so dark and repressed that it ultimately feels a bit dull.
Ever since she was first asked to audition for the play «The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs» in 1982, which brought her to George Moore's short
story about a woman living as a male waiter in male - dominated -LSB-...]
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson (Bloomsbury) is a historical novel with two parallel
stories about women struggling to define themselves, which moves between 1920s Turkestan and present - day England.
As you are likely to see over the course of the next five days, 2015 was an excellent year at the cinema, one dominated
by stories about women both expected (Todd Haynes»
Who, what, when: This charter member of a Hollywood dynasty led by dad Francis Ford Coppola of «Godfather» fame managed to carve out her own big - screen niche with gauzily - lit, beautifully appointed and emotion -
driven stories about women struggling to find their places in the world.
I'm sure part of what helped the kids was that, these days, there's increased awareness of the benefits of breastfeeding as well as a constant stream of unfortunate
news stories about women being harassed for publicly breastfeeding.
Despite laws that protect women's right to breastfeed in public, there are frequent
press stories about women being advised against breastfeeding or humiliated in public for breastfeeding.
There is a
mysterious story about woman who was once treated at the Buffalo State Asylum, the original psychiatric center at the Richardson Olmsted Campus, in the late 1800s.
I knew after the first glass of wine that dude wasn't that into me and I knew after that
whole story about the women treating him badly, that I probably wouldn't be going out again.
Though it's irresistibly funny and filled with insane (but true) details, this is ultimately a
sad story about a woman who was mistreated from day one, overcame obstacles to achieve brief glory, and then lost the one thing that brought her happiness.
Which is to say, to tell an innately
feminist story about women seeking and gaining recognition for their work, Scherfig and screenwriter Gaby Chiappe interestingly make the film all about men.