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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... supposed role of hunting , killing , primitive man . 12 Nor does the significance of the mother - child bond end there . In the myth of Man the Hunter , he invents the family . By impregnating his mate and stashing her away in the cave ...
... supposed role of hunting , killing , primitive man . 12 Nor does the significance of the mother - child bond end there . In the myth of Man the Hunter , he invents the family . By impregnating his mate and stashing her away in the cave ...
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... supposed safe stronghold of marriage , has been a commonplace of women's experience throughout history . Exalted for motherhood , they were despised for the process that made them mothers ; defined and confined by their sex , they were ...
... supposed safe stronghold of marriage , has been a commonplace of women's experience throughout history . Exalted for motherhood , they were despised for the process that made them mothers ; defined and confined by their sex , they were ...
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... supposedly attendant upon higher education for women . For Francis Place , see Derek Llewellyn Jones , Human Reproduction and ... supposed ' frigidity ' actually ensured lack of orgasm by requiring women to have sex in the way it is most ...
... supposedly attendant upon higher education for women . For Francis Place , see Derek Llewellyn Jones , Human Reproduction and ... supposed ' frigidity ' actually ensured lack of orgasm by requiring women to have sex in the way it is most ...
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