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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... modern psychology to enhance what we call IQ , and must have been of critical value in assisting our branching away from the great apes in mental and conceptual ability . Female parents are not the only ones who can comfort , stimulate ...
... modern psychology to enhance what we call IQ , and must have been of critical value in assisting our branching away from the great apes in mental and conceptual ability . Female parents are not the only ones who can comfort , stimulate ...
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... modern world was routinely employed not in the objective search for new truths , but in the determined recycling of the old lies . In addition , science itself became a new instrument of power ; the swift colonisation by men of this ...
... modern world was routinely employed not in the objective search for new truths , but in the determined recycling of the old lies . In addition , science itself became a new instrument of power ; the swift colonisation by men of this ...
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... modern genital mutilation of females , see G. Barker - Benfield , ' Sexual Surgery in Late Nineteenth - Century America ' , in C. Dreifus ( ed . ) , Seizing Our Bodies ( New York , 1978 ) . Useful extracts from contemporary documents ...
... modern genital mutilation of females , see G. Barker - Benfield , ' Sexual Surgery in Late Nineteenth - Century America ' , in C. Dreifus ( ed . ) , Seizing Our Bodies ( New York , 1978 ) . Useful extracts from contemporary documents ...
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