Carolina QuotesWhat women must do, what feminists are now doing is to point to that stage, its sets, its props, its director, and its scriptwriter, as did the child in the fairy tale who discovered that the emperor was naked, and say, the basic inequality between us lies within this framework. And then they must tear it down.
Gerda Lerner Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)
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- 1986
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