Sublime

Moreover, a woman, working full-time in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

Os jornais relegam as questões femininas para a “página das mulheres”.

Os homens fortes lutam pelas mulheres belas, e as mulheres belas têm maior sucesso na reprodução.

On the wings of market-friendly feminism, the idea that personal advancement is a subversive form of political progress has been accepted as gospel. The trickiest thing about this idea is that it is incomplete and insufficient without being entirely wrong.

But they had a strange and disturbing effect on me, and I had a hard time shaking off their verdict. This vulnerability afflicts many of the most able, high-achieving females.

Como as mulheres de classe média foram isoladas do mundo, separadas umas das outras, tendo sua tradição submersa a cada geração, elas dependem mais do que os homens dos modelos culturais à disposição, e é mais provável que sejam influenciadas por eles.

Uma verdadeira meritocracia significa para os homens “mais concorrência no local de trabalho e mais trabalho em casa”.

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