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take other partners for the tect, Evolution personduration of the marriage ified, decreeing that bondthough, almost univers- age is our birthright and we ally, illicit liaisons are con- should accept it gladly. doned for the man). Mono- God preserve us from MickThe march is called by the ACTION COMMITTEE FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO WORK, and co-sponsored by the SOUTH EAST REGIONAL COUNCIL of the TUC, with the support of the London Labour Party, the Royal Arsenal Co-op Society, the National Union of * Come to the Action Committee meetings Students, the Bakers' Union, and dozens of local - there is a meeting every Monday evening at groups, union branches and Labour women's 7.15 at County Hall, Waterloo. Send us a donation sections, as well as all the major campaigns, groups Publicise the march in your local press, at work, and publications of the WOMEN'S LIBERÁTION at college, at school, among your friends.

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•w issue of Fightback -ip plus postage from 41 1 MITTEE FOR A WOMAN S RIGHT 7D TaT 'eternalising' of products is the analogies as lite ities. A good exar pair-bonding/mo: equation.

Monogamy is a social institution which decress institution which decrees one man and one woman marry (for life) and do not WUnK. historical taking of ral identple is the logamy and pubirestor CAN• Samps custom, and various sanctions.

Pair-bonding is the mating pattern of certain species (often birds), whereby one mate is taken for life. On the death of one of the pair, the living one does not generally take another mate.

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Pair-bonding is not enforced. It doesn't need to be. The species in which it occurs don't have the alternative of behaving otherwise.

It's often instructive to draw parallels and create analogies between animal behaviour and human social products, just as you might compare the aerodynamics of birds' flight with aeroplanes. But nobody believes that a plane is a bird.

Yet when it comes to monogamy or private property, they are not just compared to but equated with with pair-bonding or animal territory.

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Not only that. It's taken a step lurwier, Iom run- atan franthre Lies a man ction' to moral imperative. It is not only woman's 'natural' role to please men, that's how it ought to be, that's all she should aspire to.

Which seems to take us back full circle. Having dethroned God, we have another superhuman archiHOW YOU CAN HELP

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