Example sentences of "[noun] about women 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas and opinions about women 's issues and the degree of priority they should be given at this stage vary considerably , but it is more than apparent that there are many who now believe that a new society would be incomplete without changes in women 's position . |
| 2 | ( Gladstone was not the only public figure to join the chorus about women 's " nimble fingers " being particularly suited to the trade ; " and fifty years earlier , Napoleon on being shown round a printing office had growled that it was " women 's work " . ) |
| 3 | Initially , as many men have recounted , there was a great deal of prejudice about women 's military capacities : |
| 4 | Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible . |
| 5 | When we were doing Today 's History at six , for example , Juliet Gardiner did a particular programme about women 's history . |
| 6 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 7 | Pauline is also in the middle of writing for a new BBC programme about women 's health to be screened around next April . |
| 8 | As self portraiture , in the work of women like Helen Chadwick and Jo Spence , it makes certain specific statements about women 's sexuality and self image . |
| 9 | While the state has made no attempt to erode traditional ideas about women 's role in society through the schools , many teachers are aware of the problem : |
| 10 | Feminists who are not linguists also have strong folklinguistic beliefs about women 's speech , and they are — once again — reminiscent of the beliefs of anti-feminists , though of course the feminists interpret them differently . |
| 11 | Women sailors who might not have their sights set on such lofty goals — or , for that matter , those who have — will be interested in a seminar about women 's sailing to be held in February . |
| 12 | As a result , knowledge about women 's experiences is often derived indirectly from studies which describe household patterns of income , expenditure and consumption . |
| 13 | Take A League Of Their Own , Penny Marshall 's comedy about women 's baseball during WWII , which stars Madonna and Geena Davis and has coined it in America . |
| 14 | It adds that the exclusion of certain part-time workers from employment protection rights , pensions and the contributory benefits system only serves to reinforce assumptions about women 's economic dependency . |
| 15 | It will be apparent that much of this discussion has concerned emotional support given to women rather than men , because there is far more empirical evidence about women 's close relationships , largely leaving invisible the question of where men derive their emotional support . |
| 16 | We were aware that women have exercised and do exercise certain kinds of power given particular social arrangements ; we were aware too of the need for new ways of thinking about power which would allow us to answer questions about women 's authority , power , influence and status in different times and places . |
| 17 | The argument about women 's choices over their bodies is largely a red herring . |
| 18 | Although arguments about women 's impurity are not used explicitly in the statements of the Vatican and various national episcopacies against women 's ordination , they are implied . |
| 19 | The analysis will be conducted inn relation to theories about women 's position in the labour market and the role of training in relation to it , such as human capital theory and the theory of capitalist patriarchy . |
| 20 | Women 's participation in the movement has developed a great awareness about women 's particular needs , in terms of nurseries , the socialization of domestic work , etc . |
| 21 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 22 | Information and resource centre about women 's health issues , providing lists of clinics offering donor insemination services . |
| 23 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 24 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 25 | Workshops , day schools , short and more intensive courses about women 's literature and history and psychology and health , for example , have become a feature of every self-respecting liberal studies programme ; whilst courses in self-defence , assertiveness training , women 's sexuality , welfare rights , peace studies and feminist politics have helped to reconstitute what is usually defined as a relevant curriculum for women . |
| 26 | I mean you c you ca n't really read wh a book on this list about women 's and men , s language without finding the reference to Lakehoff in the back somewhere . |
| 27 | A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination , but the fact that the returning officer was prepared to accept her candidature ended the controversy about women 's eligibility . |
| 28 | Scattered across feminist iconography , it makes points about women 's issues which are usually clear and concise . |
| 29 | In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc . |