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The asexual Victorian angelwife and the Victorian prostitute were institutions
created by this double thinking , which had nothing to do with women ' s actual
sensuality and everything to do with the male ' s subjective experience of women
.
The asexual Victorian angelwife and the Victorian prostitute were institutions
created by this double thinking , which had nothing to do with women ' s actual
sensuality and everything to do with the male ' s subjective experience of women
.
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Interpreting to a little girl , or to an adolescent woman , the kinds of treatment she
encounters because she is female , is as necessary as explaining to a nonwhite
child reactions based on the color of her skin . * It is one thing to adjure a ...
Interpreting to a little girl , or to an adolescent woman , the kinds of treatment she
encounters because she is female , is as necessary as explaining to a nonwhite
child reactions based on the color of her skin . * It is one thing to adjure a ...
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There have been efforts to show that abortion , legal or not , is harder psychically
on women who have borne children than on a woman who has borne none . A
recent Swedish study of nearly five hundred women concluded , however , that
no ...
There have been efforts to show that abortion , legal or not , is harder psychically
on women who have borne children than on a woman who has borne none . A
recent Swedish study of nearly five hundred women concluded , however , that
no ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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