Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought

Beacon Press (1988)
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It surely would lighten the tasks of feminism tremendously if we could cut to the quick of women's lives by focusing on some essential "woman- ness." However, though all women are women, no woman is only a woman. Those of us who have  ...

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