Sentences with phrase «womanly virtue»

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

Radha is certainly no paragon of the womanly virtues detailed in Hindu texts; nor does she come close to any of the «good» or «bad» mother - goddesses of Indian mythology and religion.

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As Charlotte Allen has pointed out in these pages («The Holy Feminine,» December 1999), the struggle against one's inclinations that is necessary for the Christian life led women to take on «manly» mortifications and men to adopt «womanly» virtues such as charity.