Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page xvi
... rape is a form of mass terrorism , for the victims of rape are chosen indiscriminately , but the propagandists for male supremacy broadcast that it is women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time - in ...
... rape is a form of mass terrorism , for the victims of rape are chosen indiscriminately , but the propagandists for male supremacy broadcast that it is women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time - in ...
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... rape is not only de- graded ; the raped woman is turned into the criminal , the attacker . But who brought the black woman to the white man's door , whose absence of a sexual conscience produced the financially profitable mulatto ...
... rape is not only de- graded ; the raped woman is turned into the criminal , the attacker . But who brought the black woman to the white man's door , whose absence of a sexual conscience produced the financially profitable mulatto ...
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... rape , which is estimated to be the most frequently committed violent crime in America today . As one writer points out , rape illuminates the sexual schizophrenia of the society in which " the masculine man is .. expected to prove his ...
... rape , which is estimated to be the most frequently committed violent crime in America today . As one writer points out , rape illuminates the sexual schizophrenia of the society in which " the masculine man is .. expected to prove his ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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