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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Page 36
... sexism had to be made eventually . Once people had admitted and confronted their own racism , they could not deny the parallel . And if racism was expungable , why not sexism ? I have described the fifty - year period between the end of ...
... sexism had to be made eventually . Once people had admitted and confronted their own racism , they could not deny the parallel . And if racism was expungable , why not sexism ? I have described the fifty - year period between the end of ...
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... Sexism was the hottest topic of the day : Lawrence was merely picking up on it , adding his own views . Sexism also determined nearly the whole of G. B. Shaw's material . Ibsen's Nora in The Doll's House was no freak : such arguments ...
... Sexism was the hottest topic of the day : Lawrence was merely picking up on it , adding his own views . Sexism also determined nearly the whole of G. B. Shaw's material . Ibsen's Nora in The Doll's House was no freak : such arguments ...
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... sexism in the individual psyche , we can fully understand racism only in terms of the power hierarchies of the family : in the Biblical sense , the races are no more than the various parents and siblings of the Family of Man ; and as in ...
... sexism in the individual psyche , we can fully understand racism only in terms of the power hierarchies of the family : in the Biblical sense , the races are no more than the various parents and siblings of the Family of Man ; and as in ...
Contents
The Dialectic of Sex II | 11 |
On American Feminism | 23 |
The Misguided Feminism | 46 |
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