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Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington
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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.

©2023 Mary Harrington (P)2023 Swift Press Audio Gender Studies Social Sciences Time Management
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This book explains the history of feminism and the sexual revolution and explains why technological "advances" for women have actually been a disaster for women and men's relationships and mental health. Avery insightful book.

Extremely enlightening.

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Great argument, alarming, distressing but very insightful. I wish this information would be available to todays teenagers.

This is well constructed argument.

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I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Meat Lego Gnosticism. Mary manages to tackle some hefty topics without chapters becoming boring, offers advice for prospective parents and has changed my mind on what traditional living can encapsulate as a woman.

Thank you Mary.

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Very well reasoned. I admit some discomfort occasionally, but never a denial of the facts. I think that the question here is more if the younger people are able to get past the discomfort to a level where they allow the reasoning.
I got the book after seeing Mary in several discussions and am happy I did. What a woman!

Excellent!

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this is a landmark book by someone who has come full circle but back to a better place

So insightful!

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