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Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

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Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Born: May 28, 1941
Died: January 2, 2007 (aged 65)
Bio: Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese was a feminist American historian particularly known for her writing about women and society in the Antebellum South. She became a primary voice of the conservative women's movement. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003.
Known for:
  1. Within the plantation household (1988)
  2. Feminism is not the story of my life (1996)
  3. Slavery in White and Black

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