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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to…

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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of…
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of…
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation…
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and…
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free…
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women…
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality…

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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. — Abraham Lincoln
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Unknown Author
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. — Susan B. Anthony
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof

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