Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. - Lillian B. Rubin
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.
- Lillian B. Rubin
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independ… - Lillian B. Rubin
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independ…
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insul… - Lillian B. Rubin
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insul…
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. - Lillian B. Rubin
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they b… - Lillian B. Rubin
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they b…
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexua… - Lillian B. Rubin
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexua…
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they chan… - Lillian B. Rubin
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they chan…
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. - Lillian B. Rubin
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one. - Lillian B. Rubin
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
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