Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
“Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.”
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Andrea Dworkin
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book
Intercourse
Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: Life can be better for women - economic and political conditions improved - and at the same time the status of women can remain resistant, in deed impervious, to change: so far in history this is precisely the paradigm for social change as it relates to the conditions of women. Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change. Women are still less significant, have less privacy, less integrity, less self-determination. This means that women have less freedom.
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