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4.0
I read this book back in the 1970s. Just once, mind you, but to this day I tell other women about it. I'd say it has had a lasting impact on my life, particularly in helping me understand how we moved from matriarchal/matrilineal societies to patriarchal/patrilineal societies, where women are separated from their support group of other women, usually closely related women, or even just the village women, and what that does to use mentally and physically as we are urged to compete in a man's world, as well as birth and raise children at the same time. Well worth the read. In fact, I still have it on my keeper's bookshelf at home - so maybe I'll re-read it 40 years later.
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