A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few days ago, while seated snugly in an airplane seat on my way back to New York from Chicago,... it occurred to me that a rathe...r striking similarity existed between the situation I found myself in then, flying in a modern airplane, and what I've often felt as I watch television. To begin with, both experiences are largely passive, or at any rate they have been transformed into passive experiences. But this shared passivity is itself more complicated than it seems, for though it produces in both cases an obvious condition of quiet and inactivity, it also demands from the passenger or viewer a very definite emotional commitment. One might call it a commitment to specifically nonaggressive and uninvolved behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved--c...ommitment to a scenario.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perceiving myself through others' ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commi...tment [to be a poet].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... F...aced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has... left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resour...ces of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A commitment to sexual equality with males ... is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the... raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnucle...ar families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »