When Emmanuelle Riva won the BAFTA for Best Actress it underscored what we've been saying for years — that you have to go all the way to France to find storytellers who are willing to contemplate the idea of
women as whole human beings...
Not exact matches
As a
whole, Western
women entering the twenty - first century have power, education, and privilege unprecedented in
human history.
Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the
whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a
whole lot of
humans —
as in millions of
human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?
I made the same point over a decade prior, noting that Genesis 2:18 - 24 depicted the union of man and
woman in marriage
as effectively a reunion, where that which was taken from the undifferentiated «adam» or
human is rejoined to reestablish an integrated sexual
whole.
Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a
woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her
as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the
whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly
human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).
Only if our Scripture, doctrine, and worship are both the work and the enlightenment of
human nature
as a
whole will
women have a share in that heritage
as well.
But,
as we should by now expect, the vitality inherent in the Gospel found expression in ways which, if mankind be viewed
as a
whole, made Christ more influential in the
human scene than He or any other born of
woman had ever been.
Rather, it resides in the relationship with God which such existence may and does enjoy, whether this is realized or actualized in a vivid manner or is present only
as a kind of Leitmotif which runs through the
whole history of the
human race and the personal history of each and every
human person
as a member of the society of men and
women.
Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and
women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only
as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of
humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued
as being precisely this or that person while the community
as a
whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.
But imagine the marketing potential: Organic grass - fed
human breast - milk cheese could be the ultimate
Whole Foods product,
as long
as the
women aren't housed on factory farms or given artificial hormones to increase milk production and everything is certified.
Testosterone is not a «male hormone»
as some people like to think ---- it's a hormone for every
human, and it's necessary for every
woman to feel
whole and happy.
This is the Stockholm Syndrome plot of Knight and Day, and countless other action / rom - com / adventure flicks that treat the
woman as the tag - a-long idiot, rather than a intelligent,
whole human being.
Increase target
women knowledge about gender issues and
human rights with improvement in their skills to advocate their rights and to participate in decision making, it will also has impact the children through the work with teachers and within schools -
as well
as the
whole community through public event community mobilization and so on.
In Big
Woman Statue the unidentified hand suggests a void or an unavailability, leaving room for imagination of whether or not there is another
human figure, reinforcing the exhibition project's overall interest in the absence and presence of bodies
as well
as the tension between the
whole body and its parts.