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“The Gang’s All Here”
“The Gang’s All Here” I’ve always liked to be in situations where the whole gang was here. In Hilltop, the summer place of my childhood (memories revived in “Kid Stuff”) we had a small but true-hearted band of playmates to … Continue reading →
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“Kid Stuff”
Illustration by Kurt Wiese in All The Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling “Kid Stuff” In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir writes that women often preface a remark or opinion by saying, “when I was a little girl,” when what … Continue reading →
Posted in Culture, Erotic Life, Femininity, Friendship, Gender Balance, Literature, Masculinity, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman
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Tagged adulthood, Baloo, canary, childhood, Gender, kids, Mowgli, Mowgli Stories, New Jersey, New York, Rudyard Kipling, Sexuality, Simone de Beauvoir, summer, summer camp, The Jungle Book, The Second Sex, Watchung Mountains, woman
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