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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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How fantastic this book is. A powerful and deeply articulate work which will be at the vanguard of the pushback against what we have all been tiring of for a long time. Well done Mary.

Powerful and Articulate Pushback

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One of the most comprehensive appraisals of our times I have ever come across. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand our current socio-political landscape with regards to the way that feminism and associated philosophies have developed, and how they can best made relevant to our wellbeing going forwards

A must read

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Really enjoyed listening to this book. I have been feeling that there is something deeply wrong with the way we think about life and therefore the way we live. It is good to find someone articulating what you already think instinctively but don’t always know how to articulate.

Engaging and well articulated

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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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