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Carolyn Heilbrun - Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973)

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The term 'androgyny'... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

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Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

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Carolyn Heilbrun

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Born: January 13, 1926
Died: October 9, 2003 (aged 77)
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