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But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.

recognize their increasing sexual and economic emancipation, but to channel those energies into the family.

lingering feminine/affective, rather than feminist, connotations.

where we reside, how we raise and educate our children, our personal relationship to things, and the quality of our connections to friends, families, and partners impact us as much as tax policies, the price of energy, or the way we organize formal employment.

Many of their daughters abandoned security and material comfort to follow a more autonomous path that brought them face to face with economic hardship and pervasive discrimination.

Women must still restrict their sexual expression, even while acting out and playing along with patriarchal demands placed upon them.

potential for exploitation of women's same-sex desires and behaviors becomes evident when examining the interface between popular culture and women's behavior.

Our identities are too often defined by our relationships to other people—wife, mother, daughter—and prominent politicians defend women’s rights by describing us relationally to men.

As neoliberalism demands more hours of waged work per household and less state support for social welfare, it squeezes families, communities, and (above all) women to the breaking point.