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C. S. Lewis Answers "What is a Woman?"
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C. S. Lewis Answers "What is a Woman?"

by accurately addressing the mid-twentieth century question, "What is Man?"

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Nearly a century before this generation started asking, “What is a Woman?,” the mid-twentieth century thought leaders were trying to answer the question, “What is Man?”

In his book, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America 1933-1973, Mark Greif shares Jacque Maritain’s assertion that this was a time of extreme emergency as the culture…

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