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general decline of left-revolutionary feminism and corresponding growth of “female cultural nationalism” accompanied a gradual rise, by certain former radicals, to echelons of institutional and media privilege with seemingly endless column inches to spare for these women’s newfound anti-utopian cynicism and bitterness

Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine

Girls may have abundant riches in the form of bodily capital, but their capacity to spend it is limited by gendered rules of sexual conduct.

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

L’expression sexuelle des femmes est valorisée tant qu’elle s’inscrit dans une performance de la féminité « salope », c’est-à-dire tant que les femmes restent du côté des objets du désir (position codifiée comme féminine) et non du côté des sujets du désir (position codifiée comme masculine).

Florian Voros • Désirer comme un homme (French Edition)

pushed beyond Betty Friedan’s call for self-realization into a full-fledged assault on sexism

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Their mothers paid a price for security and dependence; the daughters paid a price for autonomy and independence.

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Given that in the labor market women are concentrated in service-sector jobs involving reproductive labor, it can be argued that women have traded unpaid housework for their families for paid housework in the marketplace.

Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Paying less (then as now) was gender-based, with the added advantage of de-skilling a job.

Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes

patriarchy & gender

Nikita • 3 cards

too often the growth of female-headed families is seen in a perspective of victimization that ignores women’s attempt to reduce the work and the discipline that come with a male presence in the home.