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Certainly, the menstrual cycle is yet another aspect of female experience which
patriarchal thinking has turned inside out, rendering it sinister or
disadvantageous. Internalizing this attitude, we actually perceive ourselves as
polluted.
Certainly, the menstrual cycle is yet another aspect of female experience which
patriarchal thinking has turned inside out, rendering it sinister or
disadvantageous. Internalizing this attitude, we actually perceive ourselves as
polluted.
Page 197
At the end of the ceremonies, according to C. Kerenyi, whose study of Eleusis I
have drawn on for most of the above, the hierophant turned to the initiates and
showed them a cut-off ear of grain: All who had “seen” turned, at the sight of this ...
At the end of the ceremonies, according to C. Kerenyi, whose study of Eleusis I
have drawn on for most of the above, the hierophant turned to the initiates and
showed them a cut-off ear of grain: All who had “seen” turned, at the sight of this ...
Page 219
Because only her husband, her neighbors, psychiatric workers, the clergy, and
the police have spoken for her, because her rage and despair communicated
itself in metaphors, in violence turned first inward, then upon what she loved, we
will ...
Because only her husband, her neighbors, psychiatric workers, the clergy, and
the police have spoken for her, because her rage and despair communicated
itself in metaphors, in violence turned first inward, then upon what she loved, we
will ...
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