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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Page 72
... Virgin Mary , it was decreed , remained a virgin not only before the birth of Christ , but afterwards as well . She was unravaged by the bloody mess and pain of childbirth ; He was hermetically sealed off from any contact with her ...
... Virgin Mary , it was decreed , remained a virgin not only before the birth of Christ , but afterwards as well . She was unravaged by the bloody mess and pain of childbirth ; He was hermetically sealed off from any contact with her ...
Page 84
... virgin's first sex experience , for example , focused only on the vagina as ' a place of devils ' , never on the owner of it . This organ was seen as most dangerous when first penetrated ; the task accordingly was to protect the man ...
... virgin's first sex experience , for example , focused only on the vagina as ' a place of devils ' , never on the owner of it . This organ was seen as most dangerous when first penetrated ; the task accordingly was to protect the man ...
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... virgin lands ' , in the preferred imperial imagery , supinely awaiting the thrust of the great white male to rouse them from their primeval slumber . All had their own existing social and political systems , in most of which women were ...
... virgin lands ' , in the preferred imperial imagery , supinely awaiting the thrust of the great white male to rouse them from their primeval slumber . All had their own existing social and political systems , in most of which women were ...
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IN THE BEGINNING | 1 |
DOMINION AND DOMINATION | 7 |
Revolution the Great Engine | 137 |
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