
Feminism Against Progress
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Mary Harrington
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Mary Harrington
In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women's liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the age of AI, biotech and all-pervasive computing. As a result, technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. Although this shift benefits a small class of successful professional women, it also makes it easier to commodify women's bodies, human intimacy and female reproductive abilities.
This is a stark warning against a dystopian future whereby poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. Progress has now stopped benefiting the majority of women, and only a feminism that is sceptical of it can truly defend female interests in the 21st century.
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Great book capture the history problems solved and pitfalls created by feminism
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Her language is more academic than Perry’s in her book, and I think I will have to relisten at least once more because a lot of it went over my head. Nevertheless, her writing is impressive, and she has a lot of important thoughts to share on modern culture, what it’s like being a ‘reactive feminist’, as well as a woman and mother in todays world. Totally fascinating. I will certainly follow anything Mary does going forward. She is an important voice currently, with a finger very much on the pulse of the current culture.
Insightful, relevant, compulsory reading for all modern women
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Must Read
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women should read this book, especially feminists
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Mary Harrington did not blow my mind with information and facts I was unaware of that somehow changed everything I thought I knew. What she did was do the hard work of putting a book together that is entertaining, easy to listen to in that it is not chocked full of impenetrable jargon, and absolutely spot on in it's critics of the modern world and in her prescriptions going forward.
And while there's no pseudo academic jargon anywhere to be found "bio-libertarian meat lego gnosticism" is my new favorite descriptor. It's so apt and perfect.
I find the author's narration perfect. As an American I loved the absurdity of listening to an English accent read the lyrics to "WAP" I think dramatic readings of modern vulgar music with a proper English accent needs to be a thing.
I work from home in a fashion not dissimilar to the woodworking family in the book. Audio books go with me through out my work day. This one... I'm going to order a hard copy to float amongst my children and recommend it to everyone I know.
Must read!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
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Excellent
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Flawed but insightful
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Excellent!
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I’ll be going through this a second time.
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An amazingly insightful work
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