Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress (2023) is a sharp blade that slays every sacred cow of today’s mainstream feminism in turn.
Feminist zeitgeist teaches us to view various contemporary trends—from the ostensible liberation of birth control and its marginalization of hands-on motherhood, to the acceptance of a transgender movement that erases embodied womanhood altogether, to the continued reliance on fairy tale romance that conceptualizes increasingly optional long-term heterosexual partnerships as more individualistically fulfilling than societally productive—through the lens of what Harrington derides as “progress theology.”
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