A Puff of Absurdity: OITNB

I read some review somewhere of the first episode of Orange is the New Black on the weekend before I dove into a marathon session of the entire season.  It suggested that the reason people like the show is because it actually shows real relationships between real women.  The context

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Dead Wild Roses: Origins of Prostitution

Divide and conquer has always been an effective strategy.  Applied against women, it has blossomed into one of tap roots of Foppression. “The feminist historian, Gerda Lerner, showed that prostitution has not always existed. It first arose at the beginning of patriarchy, which was relatively recently in the long history

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