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5: Reactionary Feminism - Mary Harrington | Maiden Mother Matriarch 5

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Conservative and Reactionary Feminism

I'm fond of saying that the trad wives and the return to what people call the traditional family. The traditional family quote-unquote is not actually very traditional. In fact it's distinctively modern because it emerged in response to work leaving the home in the industrial era. To talk about going back to the material conditions of the industrial era for most young men and women forming families now is just self-evidently nonsense. You can't easily without a lot of systemic changes go back to a world where manufacturing jobs are abundant and well-paying enough that a significant proportion of the population can survive on one income. I mean it would be desirable to return to a world maybe but whether or

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