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A Girl’s Silence Is Golden; or An Old Take on “Lock Her Up!”

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Children’s books can contain surprising survivals and one of the strangest I’ve seen recently  is the woman’s mouth closed with a padlock, a symbol of female self-control that is at least as old as the Middle Ages.  Rather than succumb … Continue reading

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