the man

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the man/woman/thing of (one's) dreams

The ideal person or thing that one has been hoping or longing for . I never expected to get married again, but meeting the man of my dreams completely changed my mind. I can't turn down this offer—it's the job of my dreams!

the man

verb

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Too often most of the responsibility falls on the woman for making change when children come into the marriage," says YFN member Laura Singer of Chicago, a 34-year-old stay-at-home mother of two.

Redesigning women: is the church's 'new feminism' a good fit?

Thomas was ultimately confirmed, but the hearings inspired an unprecedented number of women to campaign for office, and the 1992 election year was dubbed the "Year of the Woman.

Queens of the hill: will the newly empowered women lawmakers clean up Congress?

Regardless of whether women were symptomatic, the likelihood of testing was elevated if the visit was for preventive care, if the woman was nonwhite and if the woman was younger than 25.

Hospital-based clinic visits by women seldom include routine screening for STDs

Muller, the woman may not need to have another Pap for up to three years.

Gynecologic cancers & women's health

If bone density is low, it means that the woman either has lost bone during the previous few years or has a genetic predisposition to low bone density.

Managing menopause: how to curb hot flashes, bone loss, and other symptoms

Says Ellison: "When a drug doesn't solve your problem of low sexual desire, which is based on your partner not helping out with the kids or taking time to feel close to you before sex, then the woman turns around and says, `What's wrong with me?

The Orgasm Industry

7) English studies have shown that when a woman, her friends, or her neighbors finally contact the police, the woman probably has been battered more than 30 times.

Sweden's Response to Domestic Violence

And what about Tannen's classic you-just-don't-understand scenario, where the woman complains about a problem to get sympathy, the man offers a solution, and she gets upset?

Sex & sensibility

Her transformation is significantly preceded by the purging of "the man with the unclean spirit": just as Jesus distinguishes there between the man and his uncleanness, so his transformation of the woman distinguishes between the marginalized status of the woman and her capacity for a ministerial role.

Women transformed: the ending of Mark in the beginning of wisdom

Many of the desertion blues position the woman as the site of monogamous heterosexuality - she signifies on her promiscuous man, threatens him with violence, or pleads with him to come home.

"Love me like I like to be": the sexual politics of Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' the classic blues and the Black Women's Club movement

As well as bearing her children in pain, woman was further punished by subjugation to man, and as Blessed Edith observes ruefully, "that he would not be a good master was evident in his attempt to shift responsibility onto the woman.

Edith Stein on women

The legal debt of dower owed to the woman must be paid in full upon divorce by the husband.

Toward a theory of a Arab-Muslim women as activists in secular and religious movements

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The same pattern emerged in an analysis of factors associated with preterm birth: The risk of preterm birth was not increased if the woman had been in jail and aged 25-29, but was elevated if she had been in her 30s (odds ratios, 2.

Women in their 30s are the most likely to experience adverse birth outcomes if jailed during pregnancy

She too turned to teaching to support herself and had faded into relative obscurity when one of her former pupils, folksinger Judy Collins, produced a Oscar-nominated documentary f ilm about her entitled Antonia: Portrait of the Woman (1974), which led to a brief revival of interest in Brico's career.

Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges." & Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Instrumentalists and Conductors. (Reviews)