The Women's History of the WorldExamines women's contribution to the evolution of the human race, and the female achievement on every level-cultural, commercial domestic, emotional, and social. |
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... attacked by the god Susa - nu- wo , who destroys her rice fields and pollutes her sacred places with faeces and dead flesh ... attack , as men sought to wrest from them their authority in a number of different ways . Where royalty passed ...
... attacked by the god Susa - nu- wo , who destroys her rice fields and pollutes her sacred places with faeces and dead flesh ... attack , as men sought to wrest from them their authority in a number of different ways . Where royalty passed ...
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... attack on women's former prerogative . The Mother Goddess lost her sacred status and the power that went with it ; and in this violent downgrading queens , priestesses and ordinary women at every stage of their lives , from birth to ...
... attack on women's former prerogative . The Mother Goddess lost her sacred status and the power that went with it ; and in this violent downgrading queens , priestesses and ordinary women at every stage of their lives , from birth to ...
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... attack on women's citadels of self , their bodies ? The answer to this conundrum brings us to the central issue : the issue of blood . ' A woman in her courses ' . . . the female's body made her not simply less than human but worse than ...
... attack on women's citadels of self , their bodies ? The answer to this conundrum brings us to the central issue : the issue of blood . ' A woman in her courses ' . . . the female's body made her not simply less than human but worse than ...
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