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Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women
Masculine/Feminine Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women Author:Betty Roszak and Theodore Roszak (Edited By) "He is playing masculine. She is playing feminine. He is playing masculine because she is playing feminine. She is playing feminine because he is playing masculine...She is stifling under the triviality of her feminity. The world is groaning beneath the terrors of his masculinity...How do we call off the game?" — "If there is justification fo... more »r an anthology like this, it lies in the fact that, off the college campuses and outside small, intense circles of metropolitan militancy, the home truths of women's liberation continue to seem alien, quaint, and absurd. The apologetics and metaphysics of sexism lie thick upon the public consciousness. Masculine priviledge, ponderously rationalized, profoundly entreanched, dies hard; female self-assertion sleeps as deep as Beauty in her tower surrounded by thickets of mystification, dreaming the old and treacherous dream that woman must wait till the man comes seeking, that she cannot awaken till the man finds her pleasing and bestows on her a respectably dependent identity. Obviously enough, there are yet many men and women who require the well-spiced food for thought this collection of readings means to provide; for the movement has far to go."« less