A commune member at Hsincheng County, Honan Province, presented two square bronze wine-vessels of 37 catties each, dated the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods (770-221 B.C.), which he came upon while irrigating the fields.]

Accubation was introduced in Rome after the first Punic War (264-241 BC). In Greece accubation was unknown at the time of the Homeric poems (cf. Od. i. 145 ἑξείης ἕζοντο κατὰ κλισμούς τε θρόνους τε, XV. 134 ἑζέσθην δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειτα κατὰ κλισμούς τε θρόνους τε), but afterwards the Greeks and Romans adopted this Oriental fashion and lay very nearly flat on their breasts while taking their meals, or in a semi-sitting posture supported on the left elbow.

Yet, feminist scholars have pointed out (Büskens, Hochschild) the work of care inherent in mothering, and which remains preponderously the task of women, does not avail itself to the demands of the modern world […]

In coming out , we do not know any more than others about how to live the implications of our lives as openly lesbian women or gaymen.