Book description
Politics of Reality includes essays that examine sexism, the exploitation of women, the gay rights movement and other topics from a feminist perspective.
“This is radical feminist theory at its best: clear, careful and critical.”—SIGNS
“For anyone first coming to feminism, these essays serve as a backdrop . . .…
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When I first read this book on feminist philosophy in the late 1980s, I was nervous about both feminism (because I wasn’t sure what it meant for me) and philosophy (because I wasn’t sure I was smart enough to understand it).
Marilyn Frye’s book helped me realize that I had been raised in a male-dominated and deeply sexist culture without knowing much about it, making feminism essential to my education. She also demonstrated that philosophy written in plain language was for everyone rather than an esoteric endeavor for specialists.
Frye was a scholar-in-residence at the university where I did graduate…
From Robert's list on feminism (“not the fun kind”).
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