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"Sex Slavery" by Voltairine de Cleyre

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Post Number:#16  Postby Property1234 » 23 Jul 2011, 03:13

Nice Story,thanks for sharing,and i love to enjoy your stories.and i am waiting for the forthcoming stories.
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Post Number:#17  Postby Garathnormanmtts » 26 Jul 2011, 18:42

Great story.I liked it a lot.Thanks for sharing this.
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Post Number:#18  Postby kbjones24 » 19 Nov 2011, 14:45

Great, thank you for posting this. I'd never heard of it before, so glad you shared.
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Post Number:#19  Postby tinatin » 18 Jun 2012, 09:15

Very great essay!
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Post Number:#20  Postby alexhenry » 09 Aug 2012, 06:30

I found it a little dramatic and even bitter at first, but I do appreciate radical writings and this was certainly radical in her time (perhaps still today), so I read on. I think she won me over with her assessment of the artificial constructs of church and sate as the root of human slavery and reduction.
A thoughtful piece, although I don't know how one can put more blame on men for being socialized as slave masters than they do on women for being conditioned as slaves; especially if one considers the man as being shackled himself.
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Post Number:#21  Postby Phoenix98 » 22 Sep 2012, 01:22

Sad. Sorry to say I'd never heard of the author. Perhaps I haven't missed much. The claim that the church from its infancy taught the inferiority of women is a breach of hermeneutics. Jesus and Paul did more to liberate women by historic parallel than any people or institution since.

Nonetheless, it was an educational read.
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