Feminist Theories: Attraction, 1792-Today

[carnivee]

Hit upon both in “A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman” by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) and “The Subjection Of Women” by John Stuart Mill (1870) is the idea of the attractiveness of women-how it has, historically, been the aim in life of women and on which their worth is solely measured (which, naturally, perpetuate each other). What I find

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[kneedeep]

Hey you, somehting came fro you from the Dept. of Education...looked important. Maybe for your taxes? Let me know what to do with it

p.s there are a fuck-ton of credit card applications that come for you, I am assuming you don't want those...

[carnivee]

crikey. i still get mail there?? i had it forwarded and everything. sigh. i'll try to stop that. in the meantime, yea, toss out all the cc apps. :P but dept of ed thing... would you mind mailing it to me? i'll email you my address...

Re: I reccomend!

[carnivee]

thank you! i'll have to look into them... though probably when i'm not in a bad mood. i get pissed off at this crap so easily.

i've heard of levy's book, mainly through this and other related articles: http://www.gendergeek.org/2005/12/dont-cha-wish-your-girlfriend-was-post.html

which i came across when, on new year's eve, i was watching network tv and saw the pussycat dolls for the first time. i was horrified by the small clip i saw and, in particular, the name, and checked them out online, and then saw that, horror upon horror, they seem to consider themselves "feminist" (whatever that even means to people anymore).