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Abuse. v. t. e. Polyandry ( / ˈpɒliˌændri, ˌpɒliˈæn -/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man') is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females. If a marriage involves a plural number of ...
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". [ 1][ 2] Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's ...
This is a list of multiple births, consisting of notable higher order (4+) multiple births and pregnancies. Twins and triplets are sufficiently common to have their own separate articles. With the use of reproductive technology such as fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization (IVF) such births have become increasingly common. This list ...
t. e. Polyandry in India refers to the practice of polyandry, whereby a woman has two or more husbands at the same time, either historically on the Indian subcontinent or currently in the country of India. An early example can be found in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in which Draupadi, daughter of the king of Panchala, is married to five brothers.
Wonder Woman #274 (December 1980) A second Pre-Crisis Cheetah, Deborah Domaine, the niece of the original, was an ecologist; she was kidnapped, brainwashed into a feral eco-terrorist, and trained in unarmed combat by Kobra. Post-Crisis, Deborah never became the Cheetah. Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #7 (August 1987) (as Barbara Ann Minerva); #8 (as the ...
Ambiguous images or reversible figures are visual forms that create ambiguity by exploiting graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. These are famous for inducing the phenomenon of multistable perception.
[17] [pages needed] At the same time, feminists began to draw a distinction between (biological) sex and (social/psychological) gender. [18] Anthropologist Michael G. Peletz believes our notions of different types of genders (including the attitudes toward the third gender) deeply affect our lives and reflect our values in society.
The same year, he was cast alongside the German actress Romy Schneider in Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s drama Christine (1958). The pair began a high profile romance and were engaged the following year.