In principle, one could have a nephew serve as a substitute: a man's sister's son, in this matriarchal regime, would be given by his uncle in ransom; whence the two Wolof expressions, na djây ("may he sell," i.e., the uncle), and djar bât ("he who can buy back," i.e., the nephew). ...
Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...
Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...
