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Book: Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
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  1. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it's healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us?"
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  2. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    Napoleon pronounced, "the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife, 'Madam, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not receive such and such a person; for the children you will bear shall be mine.' " Equally, every woman "must be made to realize that on leaving the tutelage of her family, she passes under that of her husband."13 To this end, the Code Napoléon equipped every husband with extraordinary, unprecedented, indeed despotic powers. He could compel his wife either to reside in or to move to any place he decreed; everything she ever owned or earned became his; in divorce, he kept the children, the house and all the goods,
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  3. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual
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  4. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    Rabi-'ah's achievement built on a tradition of female literacy, scholarship and intellectual creativity reaching back to the dawn of thought. Countless ancient myths ascribe the birth of language to women or goddesses, in a ritual formulation of the primeval truth that the first words any human being hears are the mother's. In Indian mythology the Vedic goddess Vac means "language"; she personifies the birth of speech, and is represented as a maternal mouth-cavity open to give birth to the living word. The Hindu prayer to Devaki, mother of Krishna, begins, "Goddess of the Logos, Mother of the Gods, One with Creation, thou art Intelligence, the Mother of Science, the Mother of Courage . . .
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  5. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    One famous female Sufi mystic and religious teacher was Rabi-'ah al-' Ada-wiyyah {712‒801}, who after a girlhood in slavery fled to the desert, where she rejected all offers of marriage and devoted herself to prayer and scholarship. Although the most distinguished of women Sufis, Rabi-'ah was not unique, since Sufism gave all women the chance to attain a holy dignity
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  6. Rosalind Miles _ Who Cooked the Last Supper:

    Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed.
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