A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, a radical rethinking of the nature of war and gender and the illuminating interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. Griffin uses diaries, art, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the unexpectedly broad range of causes and effects of war. |
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Page 134
... women , he has strong feelings about how men and women ought to relate . A real man , he sets down in his diary , should love woman as a child who must be admonished perhaps even punished , when she is foolish , though she must also be ...
... women , he has strong feelings about how men and women ought to relate . A real man , he sets down in his diary , should love woman as a child who must be admonished perhaps even punished , when she is foolish , though she must also be ...
Page 201
... women interested in women's suf- frage gather at the home of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester , for the purpose , in Mrs. Pankhurst's words , of organization . Out of this meeting the Women's Social and Political Union is formed . Two ...
... women interested in women's suf- frage gather at the home of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester , for the purpose , in Mrs. Pankhurst's words , of organization . Out of this meeting the Women's Social and Political Union is formed . Two ...
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... women alike , Gandhi reverses the old policy . Now women , along with the poor , will make up the largest portion of the rank and file of the Satyagraha movement . Over the ensuing years , in his own way Gandhi will continue to be an ...
... women alike , Gandhi reverses the old policy . Now women , along with the poor , will make up the largest portion of the rank and file of the Satyagraha movement . Over the ensuing years , in his own way Gandhi will continue to be an ...
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