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#596 - Mary Harrington - Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women
Modern Wisdom
Feminism Against Progress
Today, women are sincerely frightened by the idea of becoming just a wife and a mother. It remains an open question for me as to just how... I mean, Wendell Berry put it really nicely in his essay "Feminism, The Body and the Machine" And he makes the point more generally about the transition from agrarian life where people were kind of economically productive within a home. In what meaningful senses is a woman like that liberated by being sent to punch the same four holes on an assembly line all day? But whether or not women were radically disempowered in that context, in every case, I think is much up for debate.
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