REVIEW: ‘Feminism Against Progress’ by Mary Harrington
Most feminists—heck, most people in general—like to see themselves as being on the side of progress. Not Mary Harrington, a self-described "reactionary feminist" and the author of Feminism Against Progress.
What does it mean to be "against progress" in the name of feminism? That turns out to be mostly a semantic matter: Harrington does not want to lose the right to vote, and while she takes some swipes at the "Progress Theology" of folks like Steven Pinker, she doesn’t deny, much less bemoan, that humans have become richer and live longer lives in recent centuries.
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