In The Beginning
NaiionalGallery ofArt, Waslingion, D.C. Rosenwald Collection.
Adam and Eve (1504), by Albrecht Diver. "It is not good that the man should be alone," said the Lord (Genesis 2:18). The solution: woman. De- spite the Lord's intentioizs, the sexes' first encounterwas not a totalsuccess.
The most perfectly organized societies in nature are sexless ones, or those where sex differences have been minimized or somehow suppressed. In America, during the turbulent late 1960s and '70s, feminists began...