The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist RevolutionIn the light of recent developments concerning the still-present gulf between the sexes, books by and about women and society have climbed to the top of the bestseller lists. Listed as one of the 20 most influential women's books of the last 20 years in a Publishers Weekly poll, this classic in feminist theory is now reissued in a new Quill edition. Illustrated. |
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... human infants take an even longer time to grow up than animals , and thus are helpless and , for some short period at least , dependent on adults for physical survival . ( 3 ) That a basic mother / child interdependency has existed in ...
... human infants take an even longer time to grow up than animals , and thus are helpless and , for some short period at least , dependent on adults for physical survival . ( 3 ) That a basic mother / child interdependency has existed in ...
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... Humanity is not an animal species , it is a historical reality . Human society is an antiphysis - in a sense it is against nature ; it does not passively submit to the presence of nature but rather takes over the control of nature on ...
... Humanity is not an animal species , it is a historical reality . Human society is an antiphysis - in a sense it is against nature ; it does not passively submit to the presence of nature but rather takes over the control of nature on ...
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... human ' . Nature produced the fundamental inequality - half the human race must bear and rear the children of all of them - which was later consolidated , institutionalized , in the interests of men . Reproduction of the species cost ...
... human ' . Nature produced the fundamental inequality - half the human race must bear and rear the children of all of them - which was later consolidated , institutionalized , in the interests of men . Reproduction of the species cost ...
Contents
The Dialectic of Sex II | 11 |
On American Feminism | 23 |
The Misguided Feminism | 46 |
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