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MacKinnon on Patriarchy

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Marxis Response to Gandy

Gandy is also sometimes claimed as a kind of feminist. It's a strange kind of feminism. And gandy had some fairly strange attitudes towards sex. He lived a peculiar life. I don't think he ever thought that his life could be a model in that respect. But he did take very seriously the role of women in society and took seriously questions of oppression. Catherine mc kinnan made an argument roughly 200 years after mary wolstonecroft, which doesn't mention mary w Wolstonecroft but effectively says that those two answers to wolstonecraft's challenge have shown themselves to be completely inadequate. The liberal answer is not feminism first, liberalism second. In an article

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