Reading The Matrix of War

The Matrix of War Nancy Huston Pg 119-136

'There are laws which regulate the killing and consumption of animals by Human Beings; these laws involve a sens of the SACRED, from which women are generally excluded. Though women may be, and often are, IDEALISED  as the embodiment of SACREDNESS itself.'

'It is more convenient for women to look after gathering food and raising children, given that they are 'immobilised' by pregnancy and nursing. Rather, I would suggest that it is the act of giving birth itself which is considered with the act of dealing death.'

'as mothers, women are excluded from life taking activities [...] ass virgin they are not.'

'Hunter goddesses and fighter goddesses Tend to be virgins.'

So they are not weak? Bodies are not broken? They have no one who needs them?

'According to Plutarch at Sparta...'it was forbidden to inscribe the names of the dead upon their tombstones, except for the men who had fallen in war and women who had died in childbirth.'

And apparently in Athens too.

PROBLEM - Man is for war & marriage    man and man   man and women

- Women is for marriage   woman and man

There is no women and women

Pg 133

'Lionel Tiger Men in Groups, 'In view of the importance and quasi-hunting behaviour among human males ...bondless, aggressionless males are in/a real sense equivalent to childless females.'

'Phyllis Chester in Women and madness 'All women who bear children are committing, literally and symbolically, a blood sacrifice for the perpetuation of the species.'

Modern Times; men decline war, women decline maternity. 'the ''unisex'' ideal of contemporary society.'