“Why focus on sexism in your department?” A reductive explanation

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Why focus on sexism, rather than other kinds of discrimination? In this brief paper, I introduce a reductive explanation which says, “All other prejudices are just varieties of sexism.”

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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