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

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

CHAPTER

The Enclosure of Women's Body

John Claire was an incredibly tragic figure in the 19th century. He wrote about what it was like to lose the commons and eventually went mad he ended up in a in an asylum for for the mentally disturbed writing these sort of insane kind of Byron pastitias you know bitter cynical completely unmoored from reality. This one I always think of when I think about what liberation actually means  and what can be lost in ways which are much more difficult to articulate as we privilege freedom at the expense of all the other things that make up who we are and what we're doing. The hinge moment in the enclosure of the human body with the arrival of the contraceptive pill in the abortion in the

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