We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology.

Diana Trilling

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Culture Society and the individual

Author

Diana Trilling

Source

Female Biology in a Male Culture

Medium

Essay

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Trilling, Diana. "Female Biology in a Male Culture." The Saturday Review, 10 Oct. 1970.

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