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The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalizes them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
Greer in Amsterdam, 6 June 1972, on a book tour for The Female Eunuch. Two of the book's themes already pointed the way to Sex and Destiny 14 years later, namely that the nuclear family is a bad environment for women and for the raising of children, and that the manufacture of women's sexuality by Western society is demeaning and confining ...
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan (2003) The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust, Melissa Raphael (2003) "The Feminist Ghost at the Conservative Political Action Conference" (2003) [591] "Women's Peace Activism: Forward into the Past?", Joreen (2003 ...
The reference to "eunuchs" in Matthew 19:12 has yielded various interpretations. Roman law and post-classical Canon law referred to a person's sex as male, female or hermaphrodite, with legal rights as male or female depending on the characteristics that appeared most dominant. Under Roman law, a hermaphrodite had to be classed as either male ...
This can be considered effectively a gender role. The strictest gender-dependent obligations or prohibitions apply to tumtum because if the tumtum might genuinely be a man or woman, laws for neither men nor women should be broken. Positive commandments from which women are exempt are considered binding on a tumtum. [8]
In Jewish tradition, the term saris (Hebrew: סָרִיס, literally eunuch;) is a term used to refer to an individual assigned male at birth who has done one of the following: develop female characteristics; fail to reach sexual maturity by 20 years old [citation needed]; undergo castration.
The Skoptsy [1] (Russian: скопцы, IPA: [skɐpˈtsɨ]; sg. скопец "eunuch") were a cult [2] within the larger Spiritual Christianity movement in the Russian Empire. They were best known for practising emasculation of men, the mastectomy and female genital mutilation of women in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. [3]
Robert A. Wilson was an American gynecologist who is known for writing the best-selling 1966 book Feminine Forever. [2] He is also known for his organization the Wilson Research Foundation (WRA). [2] In Feminine Forever, Wilson promoted the use of estrogen therapy to avoid the menopause and associated symptoms. [2]