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Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist It’s a German word for the “spirit of the times.” The historian Norman Stone gives an example of a moment when the Zeitgeist changed: “Dangerfield had it right when he observed how, in the cartoons of Punch, there was … Continue reading →
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“A Woman’s Standing”
“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 →
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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
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