Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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I Think Women Have a Lot of Power
I think women have a lot of power. We might also want to ask ourselves whether what we value in or in our own lives is really the height of feminist achievement. Or are there other things that would actually be much more liberating, and wouldn't involve the same kind of status games? It strikes me reading reading to reading tha book, and now listening to you as well, thats it's not quite a para ox, but it reads like a paradox,. That at one point you want to reaffirm a certain binery, the binery of the sexes, but somehow reject some of the apparatuses whichwhich would grow on that.
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