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Robert Briffault® goes to some pains to show that matriarchy in primitive societies
was not simply patriarchy with a ... He points out that the matriarchal elements in
any society have had a functional origin - i . e . , the maternal function of ...
Robert Briffault® goes to some pains to show that matriarchy in primitive societies
was not simply patriarchy with a ... He points out that the matriarchal elements in
any society have had a functional origin - i . e . , the maternal function of ...
Page 59
These have arisen , to be sure , not from any primary concern for women , but
from pressures generated by the wastefulness of technological society and the
misallocation and monopoly of resources on the planet , which are usually
referred to ...
These have arisen , to be sure , not from any primary concern for women , but
from pressures generated by the wastefulness of technological society and the
misallocation and monopoly of resources on the planet , which are usually
referred to ...
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Elizabeth Oakes - Smith , an early - nineteenth - century suffragist , writer , and
preacher , had demanded in 1852 : " Do we really understand that we aim at
nothing less than an entire subversion of the present state of society , a
dissolution of ...
Elizabeth Oakes - Smith , an early - nineteenth - century suffragist , writer , and
preacher , had demanded in 1852 : " Do we really understand that we aim at
nothing less than an entire subversion of the present state of society , a
dissolution of ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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