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... perceptions and customs of an emergent Feminist / Lesbian society and articulate a vocabulary of meanings that reflects the self - awareness of a woman - centered social order . These vocabularies reorient the conceptual structure of ...
... perceptions and customs of an emergent Feminist / Lesbian society and articulate a vocabulary of meanings that reflects the self - awareness of a woman - centered social order . These vocabularies reorient the conceptual structure of ...
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... perceptions it could not express because they would lead to its indirect self - destruction , " she took the idea to another level of abstraction : " for every culture there are languages it could not use because they would lead to its ...
... perceptions it could not express because they would lead to its indirect self - destruction , " she took the idea to another level of abstraction : " for every culture there are languages it could not use because they would lead to its ...
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... perceptions . Whatever a woman said she felt or perceived , we accepted as necessarily true . Our desire to affirm every woman's perceptions was a lofty aspiration , and our own experiences of the social / political realities of ...
... perceptions . Whatever a woman said she felt or perceived , we accepted as necessarily true . Our desire to affirm every woman's perceptions was a lofty aspiration , and our own experiences of the social / political realities of ...
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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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