False Dawn | Themes
Man's inhumanity to man is allowed full reign here, since no law enforcement agency exists. In a 1980 symposium on post holocaust literature, Yarbro warned feminists away from the idea that a holocaust, "even a mini-holocaust," would be a welcome way to start with a clean slate and begin to establish female equality. Once anything like that occurs, she declared, history shows that "any small rights that you may have had for anyone but the physically strongest are gone, kaput, zowie. You do not see them again. If you want to be reduced to a state of chattel again . . . the best thing you...
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