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#596 - Mary Harrington - Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women

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Feminist Women's Response to the Industrial Revolution

Feminism is women's response in aggregate to the way the Industrial Revolution changed family life and women's lives in particular. It was a working class, women went into factories and then had to find a way of figuring out what to do with their children. And women and women of the sort of clerical class and the upper class suddenly had much more comfortable lives than ever before. So we started to started to demand access to clerical jobs and medical training and access to universities, etc.

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