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The First Sex

By Elizabeth Gould Davis Putnam, 382 pp., $7.95 It is not widely known that the Scriptural story about an Adam in the Garden of Eden is a beastly masculist lie. Our Paradisiacal foremothers were Eve and another blue-eyed Irishwoman, who made the human race by clitoral stimulation. Fatherhood, you see, did not even exist until five thousand years ago. Indeed, this whole earthly business was the offhand work of a Great Goddess who allowed a super-race to develop, but, distracted by a ghastly crisis in an episode of As the World Turns (which She was watching on the telly while doing the cosmic ironing), She overlooked the accidental breaking of a female chromosome producing the monstrous mutation of maleness.

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The First Sex

By Elizabeth Gould Davis Putnam, 382 pp., $7.95 It is not widely known that the Scriptural story about an Adam in the Garden of Eden is a beastly masculist lie. Our Paradisiacal foremothers were Eve and another blue-eyed Irishwoman, who made the human race by clitoral stimulation. Fatherhood, you see, did not even exist until five thousand years ago. Indeed, this whole earthly business was the offhand work of a Great Goddess who allowed a super-race to develop, but, distracted by a ghastly crisis in an episode of As the World Turns (which She was watching on the telly while doing the cosmic ironing), She overlooked the accidental breaking of a female chromosome producing the monstrous mutation of maleness.