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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: intellectually labouring woman of today to adopt a more rational type of
attire, less shaped to attract attention to the individual than to confer
comfort and abstain from impeding activity, is often spoken of as an
attempt on the part of woman slavishly to imitate man. What is really
taking place is, that like causes are producing like effects on human
creatures with common characteristics.)
But there remain certain psychic differences in attitude, on the part of
male and female as such, which are inherent and not artificial: and, in
the psychic human world, it is exactly as we approach the sphere of sexual
and reproductive activity, with those emotions and instincts connected
directly with sex and the reproduction of the race, that a difference does
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