The Unopposite Sex: The End of the Gender BattleHarper & Row, 1989 - 279 pages The current sexual revolution has roots that go back a long way. With less reliance on physical strength and more on intelligence, sexual identity has been blurred. Badinter looks at the interaction of the sexes since the beginning of human society. |
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... restricted to be convincing . For several decades now , the work of the prehistorians has clearly demonstrated the importance of the hunters ' civilization , from the social and economic as well as the religious and intellectual points ...
... restricted to be convincing . For several decades now , the work of the prehistorians has clearly demonstrated the importance of the hunters ' civilization , from the social and economic as well as the religious and intellectual points ...
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... the outside world , women are putting an end to the sexual division of roles and to the millenarian opposition between the home life to which they were formerly restricted 134 THE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER Eve Deals Herself a New Hand.
... the outside world , women are putting an end to the sexual division of roles and to the millenarian opposition between the home life to which they were formerly restricted 134 THE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER Eve Deals Herself a New Hand.
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... restricted , and the professional life which automatically belonged to men . Whereas in patriarchal societies a woman was primarily a mother , respon- sible for the health and happiness of her family , the new society , by spreading ...
... restricted , and the professional life which automatically belonged to men . Whereas in patriarchal societies a woman was primarily a mother , respon- sible for the health and happiness of her family , the new society , by spreading ...
Contents
FROM FEMININE ASCENDANCY TO SHARED POWERS | 31 |
The One Without the Other 3332 | 53 |
God the Father | 60 |
Copyright | |
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