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homosexuals were easy prey for communists,

Ce qui ressemble à du cynisme de la part de Cortney est en fait conforme à l’approche néolibérale de l’école de Genève sur la question des droits de l’homme dans les années post-1945. Plutôt que de rejeter catégoriquement les droits de l’homme et le droit international, la tendance néolibérale consiste à remettre en cause leur interprétation social

As a result, dominant factions of both those streams are increasingly united in a new project: to normalize once taboo forms of sex within an expanded zone of state regulation, and in a capital-friendly guise that encourages individualism, domesticity, and commodity consumption.

most scientific research about the human mind and the human experience has been conducted on people from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic

Mary Poovey, a materialist feminist—a feminist who focuses primarily on how patriarchal and capitalist assumptions force women into socially constructed gender roles—described this clearly. Poovey was attracted to deconstructive techniques for their ability to undermine what she saw as socially constructed gender stereotypes (the belief that such s

Polygamy gets an analytical treatment too. Comparing it to monogamy, Becker shows on a supply-and-demand diagram how women are better off in a society where husbands can have many wives: Women who wouldn’t make the cut as someone’s first wife under monogamy might be able to get something for themselves as a second or third wife.

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