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Note A Personal Note; Chapter 1 The Neglect of Female Genealogies; Chapter 2 Religious and Civil Myths; Chapter 3 Women's Discourse and Men's Discourse; Chapter 4 On the Maternal Order; Chapter 5 The Culture of Difference; Chapter 6 Writing As a Woman; Chapter 7 "I Won't Get AIDS"1Slogan given to a woman to say during the second campaign against AIDS carried out by French television.; Chapter 8 Linguistic Sexes and Genders; Chapter 9 The Right to Life; Chapter 10 Why Define Sexed Rights?; Chapter 11 "More Women Than Men"1'Manifesto published by the women's bookshop in Milan-a women's group to which Luisa Muraro belongs-in Sotto¡opra vert, 1985. For further elaboration of the issues and the perspective formulated in this pamphlet, see Sexual Ð??trtnct: A Tbtory ofSocúd-S?mbalic Practice, trans. Patricia Cicogna and Teresa de Lauretis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990). Originally published as Non credere di avert dti diriîti: L·ßtneraziont della libirtàfe»mttnüí ne¡?tíka e nelle vicende di ?tttßruppo di donne, The Milan Women's Bookstore Collective (Turin: Rosenberg and Sellier, 1987), (Tr.); Chapter 12 Your Health; Chapter 13 How Can We Create Our Beauty?; Chapter 14 How Old Are You?; Chapter 15 The Cost of Words; Chapter 16 So When Are We to Become Women?;