ABSTRACT
Hildi Greenson catalogued the myriad ways women are subjugated and exploited in our society: in the family; religiously; legally; in the arts, business, and the professions; as housewives; in medicine, education, and the advertising media. In the Catholic Church women have no position of power, even though Mary is the mother of God and was eventually raised to semidivine status. The New Feminism is a cultural, social, and psychological phenomenon. Women's liberation, "the movement," is composed of some twenty different organizations from moderate to extreme radical. Freud himself recognized the fact that woman was, in a sense, man's property, and in a paper on the taboo concerning virginity, said the following: "The insistence on virginity before marriage is, after all, nothing but a logical consequence of the exclusive rights of possession over a woman, which is the essence of monogamy.".