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Parabola's Winter 1980 issue: Woman We are experiencing the disturbance characteristic of a transitional time. The "revolution" we have been going through has destroyed many outworn and crippling assumptions about woman, but it has also brought terrible suffering and confusion. We are unable to live in the old roles, but the new way is still unknown. During the social upheaval of this century, we have not been able to distinguish between what belongs to the essential nature of woman and what has been grafted on it artificially; and the results of this ambivalence have been as unbalancing for men as they have for women. We are born male or female, but both manhood and womanhood need to be achieved; and in ways we do not fully understand, the possibilities of one are inextricably bound to the other. Their relationship is so intricate that any displacement must affect both. There can be no single answer valid for all of us--it is unlikely that there ever was. This issue of Parabola does not attempt to provide one. We do hope that at least some of what follows may furnish material to provoke, stimulate, and delight that within us which is our own. --from the editorial Focus Cover: Terra-cotta head Ife, 10th-13th centuries, from the shrine of the goddess of riches, Olokun Walode Federal Department of Antiquities, Lagos, Nigeria Photograph The Nigerian Museum, Lagos In this issue:
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