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... taboo calculated to protect men from the dangers felt to emanate from women.81 Various other writers , includ- ing Margaret Mead , have assumed that the menstrual taboo was created by men out of a primitive fear of blood . But , as ...
... taboo calculated to protect men from the dangers felt to emanate from women.81 Various other writers , includ- ing Margaret Mead , have assumed that the menstrual taboo was created by men out of a primitive fear of blood . But , as ...
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Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. ated a menstrual taboo , whether from a sense of their own ... taboos are laid on us even in " advanced " societies . * A man whose unconscious is saturated with the fear of ...
Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. ated a menstrual taboo , whether from a sense of their own ... taboos are laid on us even in " advanced " societies . * A man whose unconscious is saturated with the fear of ...
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... taboo to women - not just sexually , but as comrades , cocreators , coinspirators . In breaking this taboo , we are reuniting with our mothers ; in reuniting with our mothers , we are break- ing this taboo . X VIOLENCE : THE HEART OF ...
... taboo to women - not just sexually , but as comrades , cocreators , coinspirators . In breaking this taboo , we are reuniting with our mothers ; in reuniting with our mothers , we are break- ing this taboo . X VIOLENCE : THE HEART OF ...
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The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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