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The Women's Movement and the Industrial Revolution
The women's movement emerged in response to a number of ways that women genuinely were faced with new predicaments as material circumstances changed. And so I've drawn heavily from Karl Polanyi and also from Ivan Illich's work on pre-modern pre-modern sex roles, where he talks about the industrial revolution. In which he sees women as not more empowered but less empowered because they're structurally disadvantaged.