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Further Upstream - Feminism, Women’s Bodies, and the Blank Slate

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The Family Is the Thing That's Got to Go

Timothy Stanley: The family is in the crosshairs of some key feminist writers. He says they claim that maleness and femaleness, manhood and womanhood are social constructs. We have to get down to our real natural pre-social states for expressive individualism, he says. Stanley: I think we really exaggerate those differences. It comes back to this uniquely Western tick, this impulse that we have to sort of dissolve all differences"

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