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In Quest of Healing

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Abigail

We are just back from one of our weeks in California, in quest of healing for my neuropathy. As I’ve said here before, the experimental treatment on offer at Loma Linda’s neuropathy clinic sees the illness as the result of … Continue reading →

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Philosophy and Me

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Abigail

Philosophy and Me Goodness, who cares! you might well think, seeing the title of this column. But isn’t that what concerns each of us, whenever we’ve been required or drawn to read some philosophy? What about me? How does this … Continue reading →

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World History and Me

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Abigail

World History and Me Last night I watched a documentary about the “discovery” by Europeans of the Western Hemisphere – that vast tract of land between Europe and the India that the spice-hunters sought. In my childhood, that discovery was … Continue reading →

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“Keeping Promises”

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Abigail

“Keeping Promises” As a little girl, one of my vivid memories of being caught in the wrong belongs to the gift a camp counselor once gave me. This gift-giving happened the last day of the season of the Day Camp … Continue reading →

Posted in Alienation, Art, Chivalry, Courtship, Desire, Erotic Life, Faith, Guilt and Innocence, Male Power, Memoir, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged admonition, Australia, broken promises, childhood, chivalric vow, disobedience, Down Under, embarrasment, engagement, gallantry, gifts, guilt, humiliation, hypocrisy, medieval tapestry, Metropolitan Museum, New York, one-upmanship, power games, promises, reproach, Romance, stages of life, summer camp, the gift | Leave a comment

“A Woman’s Standing”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Abigail

“A Woman’s Standing” Up to adolescence, the question of standing as a woman did not arise. You had the friends who wanted to play with you. You could be rated as an athlete or a student or (at the high … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Culture, Erotic Life, Femininity, Feminism, Gender Balance, history of ideas, Literature, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged couples, Elizabeth Gould Davis' The First Sex, Euripides' Bacchae, false consciousness, Famous feminists, feminist movement, gender roles, hypocrisy, J. J. Bachofen's Mother Right, James Fraser's The Golden Bough, marital status, Mr. Right, Phyllis Chesler's An American Bride in Kabul and Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, Robert Briffault's The Mothers, Robert Graves' The White Goddess, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, unisex, universal truth, wives, women's college, yin and yang | Leave a comment

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