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Feminism Against Progress
- Author
- Mary Harrington
- Narrator
- Mary Harrington
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 2 March 2023
- Run Time
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 1.0 (1 review)
What to expect
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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There might be some good ideas here, but their obscured by so much anger and transphobia it's hard to see.
sdenglerinc 2024-05-12
Details
- Author
- Mary Harrington
- Narrator
- Mary Harrington
- Duration
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 March 2023
- ISBN
- 9781800753273
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Feminism and feminist theory
- Rating
- 1.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 3.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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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