Quoting Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:
> I've seen it several ways, honestly. I like my way because it's easy
> to
> confuse with "polygamy"...
>
> And... I'm not surprised. After all, the reasons that men were
> hunter-types
> had a lot more to do with physical attributes (and their ill-suitedness
> to
> actually bearing children) than notions of social liberation.
I don't find it particularly surprising either, but it ought to be to a high
porportion of all writers on gender-role issues I've read.
Andreas
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> > I thoght it was spelt "polygyny", with triple "y"s? That's what
> > one'd expect
> > from the Greek, at any rate.
> >
>
> > Noteworthily, in both
> > cases gender roles seems to be quite traditionalistic; men as the
> primary
> > hunters and warriors, women as the primary child-rearers and
> > food-preparers
> > (good ammo in discussions with feminists, incidentially). In the
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