EN 2011 Lecture Notes - Existentialism, Essentialism, Marital Rape
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5 things that are either from traffic n women or an incidence that represents some aspect of traffic in women: kinship, housework, marriage, sisterhood, language, essence. If you"re engaging in a ritual that is about the exchange of women, even if you change the words and the system, you are still doing the same thing. Financially, we don"t say that only the son gets the property. Women take on the last name of the husband. As our apparent belief in the individual value of the women has changes, our. Initiated by the men. social systems have changed. In modern day, it"s the wedding that takes over the idea. You"re whole life has led to this day. The ritual of the exchange, like in the older days, is the day of your life. The ritual of the exchange is not something which we don"t believe in but it"s the day of your life where this ritual happens.
