Word: cautionless
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...were conscious of anything, we were very conscious of being women. Radcliffe was a women's citadel--its dorm switchboards, its lookouts on guard against gentleman intruders who had to identify themselves and state their errands before admittance. We were cautionless about wearing just our underwear in the halls or breakfasting in pajamas; the few men that bothered to visit cut conspicuous figures at meals. Our self-consciousness about femalehood was imposed upon us just as much as it grew out of all female living, because we were such a minority. We dressed for class, for the invasion, because...
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