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But we know little about the effect on culture of that fact , because women have
not been makers and sayers of patriarchal culture . Woman ' s status as
childbearer has been made into a major fact of her life . Terms like " barren " or "
childless ...
But we know little about the effect on culture of that fact , because women have
not been makers and sayers of patriarchal culture . Woman ' s status as
childbearer has been made into a major fact of her life . Terms like " barren " or "
childless ...
Page 101
Rationalizations of patriarchy which deny this fact exist , of course , outside the
Left . In a little book on kinship systems , the anthropologist Robin Fox describes ,
in several bland sentences , the " basic female function . ” After acknowledging ...
Rationalizations of patriarchy which deny this fact exist , of course , outside the
Left . In a little book on kinship systems , the anthropologist Robin Fox describes ,
in several bland sentences , the " basic female function . ” After acknowledging ...
Page 113
Amarnan art , in fact , reiterates images of woman and of the family which do not
seem very different from contemporary stereo - . types . In these incised or carven
images , Akhenaton is already both patriarch and deity ( Incarnation of the Aten )
...
Amarnan art , in fact , reiterates images of woman and of the family which do not
seem very different from contemporary stereo - . types . In these incised or carven
images , Akhenaton is already both patriarch and deity ( Incarnation of the Aten )
...
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