Rachel from Ashland, Virginia, wonders about the origin of paraphernalia, or “items belonging to a particular person or used for a particular activity.” In ancient Greece, the pherna was a bride’s dowry, and the parapherna was her additional...
son stroke n.— «It is this structure that must be transformed—a structure that gets expressed through a wide-range of behaviors, such as dowry and a preference for sons over daughters, which the activists refer to as “son stroke.”» —“Breakthrough...