“she blooms forth as the peacock and bird of paradise, in poignant reversal of nature’s laws, even wearing masculine feathers to further her feminine ends.”
The author introduced the idea of anthrocentrism in 1911 with this book. I found this chapter to be amusing as the author explored the ideas of masculine and feminine practices and characteristics being inborn, natural, and unique to each sex. She emphasizes that we are all more human than we are either masculine or feminine.
Our Androcentric Culture, Chapter One, read by Grace Buchanan for LibriVox.
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Beautiful Peacock Woman, illustration by T V Kelly, 1914, Public domain, via PublicDomainPictures.net
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