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Finally , Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone created pioneering
feminist insights to which I shall always stand in debt . Needless to say , I owe
much to many people unnamed here . No one whom I thank necessarily shares
all my ...
Finally , Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone created pioneering
feminist insights to which I shall always stand in debt . Needless to say , I owe
much to many people unnamed here . No one whom I thank necessarily shares
all my ...
Page 155
Finally , she sees an African woman with her child in the tent of a traveling
exhibition ; the mother , noticing that Alberta is pregnant , smiles and nods
wordlessly to her . For the first time she felt without defiance and coldness that
she was to ...
Finally , she sees an African woman with her child in the tent of a traveling
exhibition ; the mother , noticing that Alberta is pregnant , smiles and nods
wordlessly to her . For the first time she felt without defiance and coldness that
she was to ...
Page 199
That Golda Meir or Indira Gandhi are women does not alter the maleness of that
authority , which emanates , finally , from and through male institutions . tI do not
mean that science and poetry are the same thing ; only that they need be in no ...
That Golda Meir or Indira Gandhi are women does not alter the maleness of that
authority , which emanates , finally , from and through male institutions . tI do not
mean that science and poetry are the same thing ; only that they need be in no ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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