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The Historic Defeat of the Female Sex: Revisiting Engels' The Origin of the Family

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The Importance of a Middle Class Women's Movement

I think that it's like a question that needs to be considered in the context of society as a whole, you know even speaking personally. When I lived in London when I came back to Ireland I used to meet these friends who were my age all the time and this whole discussion was about doing up your kitchen or what your children are going to school. This is not the kind of subject that occupies many men, is it? Most men won't be talking about those subjects themselves as being out in the world and having other interests. It's a subject that often women feel that's like their responsibility to have care for these things so that they'll take it on.

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